Zelfmoord van Saigyo Takamori
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1877-09
Medium
color woodcut
Dimensions
356; 733
About this artwork
Saigo Takamori en twee vazallen 's nachts in een boot op zee, kijkend naar blikseminslag bij een Westerse scheepsvloot.
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...