DETAILS
- Artist
- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
- Date
- 1881
- Medium
- Color woodblock print
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Collection
- Arts of Asia
- Culture
- Japan
- Credit line
- Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.
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THE ARTIST
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was the last great master of ukiyo-e, pushing traditional Japanese woodblock printing to new heights amidst Japan's modernization.
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