Scene uit het Nog theaterstuk 'Yamauba'
Tsukioka Kôgyo
1898-08
Medium
color woodcut
Dimensions
244; 358
About this artwork
Schenking van mevrouw H. Filedt-Kok Piebenga, Amsterdam
About the Artist
Tsukioka Kôgyo · 1869–1927
Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869–1927), born Hanyū Bennosuke in Tokyo's bustling Nihonbashi district as the second son of an innkeeper family, navigated a path from humble origins to mastery in Japanese printmaking. After his father's early death, he was raised by his mother's Sakamaki family and apprenticed in pottery painting under his uncle, a ceramics exporter in Yokohama. He briefly attended the Tokyo Sc...