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Utagawa Yoshiiku
c. 1850 - c. 1900
Medium
brush
Dimensions
363; 241
About this artwork
…; from Felix Tikotin (1893-1986), fl. 214, to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1935;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972
About the Artist
Utagawa Yoshiiku · 1833–1904
Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833–1904) was a prolific Japanese woodblock print artist and journalist who lived through one of the most turbulent and transformative periods in his country's history, the transition from the Edo period through the Meiji Restoration. A student of the celebrated Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Yoshiiku inherited his master's taste for bold compositional drama and dynamic figuration, applying...