月岡芳年筆 「月百姿 源氏夕顔巻」|The Spirit of the Deceased Yūgao Entwined in Moonflower Vines, based on the print “The Lady of the Evening Faces,” from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi: Genji Yūgao no maki)
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, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2019
Accession Number
2019.40
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...