Top Quality Art - Moon and Fox

by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Title

Top Quality Art - Moon and Fox

Artist

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Medium

Painting - Woodprint

Description

【TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI】
「Moon and Fox」
（Top Quality Image Edition）

月岡芳年 「むさしのゝ月」【最高画質版】

薄明りの武蔵野のすすき原野と狐を風景を描いた作品。


【Tsukioka Yoshitoshi】
(Japanese: 月岡 芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi 大蘇 芳年; 30 April 1839 – 9 June 1892) was a Japanese artist.

He is widely recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting. He is also regarded as one of the form's greatest innovators. His career spanned two eras – the last years of Edo period Japan, and the first years of modern Japan following the Meiji Restoration. Like many Japanese, Yoshitoshi was interested in new things from the rest of the world, but over time he became increasingly concerned with the loss of many aspects of traditional Japanese culture, among them traditional woodblock printing.

By the end of his career, Yoshitoshi was in an almost single-handed struggle against time and technology. As he worked on in the old manner, Japan was adopting Western mass reproduction methods like photography and lithography. Nonetheless, in a Japan that was turning away from its own past, he almost singlehandedly managed to push the traditional Japanese woodblock print to a new level, before it effectively died with him.

His life is perhaps best summed up by John Stevenson:
Yoshitoshi's courage, vision and force of character gave ukiyo-e another generation of life, and illuminated it with one last burst of glory.
— John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, 1992
His reputation has only continued to grow, both in the West, and among younger Japanese, and he is now almost universally recognized as the greatest Japanese artist of his era.


【月岡 芳年】（つきおか よしとし）
1839年4月30日（天保10年3月17日） - 1892年（明治25年）6月9日）は、幕末から明治前期にかけて活動した浮世絵師。姓は吉岡（よしおか）、のちに月岡。本名は米次郎（よねじろう）。画号は、一魁斎芳年（いっかいさい よしとし）、魁斎（かいさい）、玉桜楼（ぎょくおうろう）、咀華亭（そかてい）、子英、そして最後に大蘇芳年（たいそ よしとし）を用いた。

河鍋暁斎、落合芳幾、歌川芳藤らは歌川国芳に師事した兄弟弟子の関係にあり、特に落合芳幾は競作もした好敵手であった。また、多くの浮世絵師や日本画家とその他の画家が、芳年門下もしくは彼の画系に名を連ねている。

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August 9th, 2018

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