月岡芳年筆 「月百姿 石山の月」|Murasaki Shikibu at Ishiyamadera Temple, based on the print “The Moon at Ishiyama,” from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi: Ishiyama no tsuki)
ca. 1892
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
Image: 41 1/4 × 16 in. (104.8 × 40.6 cm) Overall with mounting: 80 1/4 × 21 1/4 in. (203.8 × 54 cm) Overall with knobs: 80 1/4 × 23 1/4 in. (203.8 × 59.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
Japan · Meiji period (1868–1912)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Ryo Toyonaga and Alvin E. Friedman-Kien Gift, 2019
Accession Number
2019.41
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...