What medium is "The Old Badger from the series "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts""?

The Old Badger from the series "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts" is Color woodblock print.

The Old Badger from the series "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts"

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

1889

Medium

Color woodblock print

Classification

woodblock print

Department

Arts of Asia

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

196868

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...

The Old Badger from the series "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts"

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