太平記正清難戦之図|Masakiyo's Challenging Battle, from the series Taiheiki (Taiheiki, Masakiyo nansen no zu)
Medium
Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Overall (a): 14 3/8 x 10 in. (36.5 x 25.4 cm) Overall (b): 14 3/8 x 9 7/8 in. (36.5 x 25.1 cm) Overall (c): 14 9/16 x 10 in. (37 x 25.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2005
Accession Number
2005.351a–c
Tags
About the Artist
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 1839–1892
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was born on April 30, 1839, in the Shimbashi district of Edo, the city that would become Tokyo. At the age of eleven he was apprenticed to Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print, who gave the boy the artist name 'Yoshitoshi' as a mark of lineage within the Utagawa School. From Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi absorbed the full tradition of ukiyo-e — th...