Yoshitoshi

Yoshitoshi was born in the city of Edo (Tokyo) shortly before Japan's violent transformations from a medieval to a modern society. He was keenly interested in preserving traditional Japanese culture against the incursions of modernism, and his prints...

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi came of age as an artist as Japan opened to the West after two hundred years of isolation.  Navigating both cultural traditions and the upheavals of the modern world, he tackled a wide range of themes:  the heroism of...

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi came of age as an artist as Japan opened to the West after two hundred years of isolation.  Navigating both cultural traditions and the upheavals of the modern world, he tackled a wide range of themes:  the heroism of...

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi came of age as an artist as Japan opened to the West after two hundred years of isolation.  Navigating both cultural traditions and the upheavals of the modern world, he tackled a wide range of themes:  the heroism of...

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi came of age as an artist as Japan opened to the West after two hundred years of isolation.  Navigating both cultural traditions and the upheavals of the modern world, he tackled a wide range of themes:  the heroism of...

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi came of age as an artist as Japan opened to the West after two hundred years of isolation.  Navigating both cultural traditions and the upheavals of the modern world, he tackled a wide range of themes:  the heroism of...