Yoshitoshi Tsukioka
Tsukioka=(月岡) family name, Yoshitoshi=(芳年) first name, (1839-1892)
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An ukiyo-e artist of the Utagawa school. Active from late Edo to early Meiji periods. His work, “Picture of the Lonely House on Adachi Moor in Oshū” has influenced artists such as Seiu Ito.
Alternate Name(s)
月岡芳年(Japanese), Taiso Yoshitoshi, Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi
Biography
1839: Yoshitoshi is born on April 17th.
1850: Introduced to the ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
1866: The series “Twenty-Eight Famous Murders with Verse” meets with great success. Art by Yoshitoshi and Ochiai Yoshiiku (both students of Kuniyoshi).
1875: Yoshitoshi is responsible for the color art in “Yūbin Hōchi Shinbun,” one of the early “full-color nespapers.” [1]
1879 Yoshitoshi creates several illustrations for “Kabuki News.”
1885: Publishes the diptych “Picture of the Lonely House on Adachi Moor in Ōshū.” The image is temporarily banned by the Meiji government because of its sadism. [2]
1886: On October 12th, Begins serializing Nishiki-e Shunbun’s “Modern Personalities Magazine” in a supplement of Yamato News.
1892: Yoshitoshi passes away on June 9th.
2012: The Ota Memorial Museum of Art holds a Yoshitoshi exhibition titled “Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: Commemorating 120 Years Since His Death.” The exhibition runs from October 2nd to November 25th.
