Collection of Desires, Wish for Foreign Travel (Mitate Tai zukushi-yōkō ga shitai)January, 1878
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi designed this (January, 1878), aged 39. It is now at The Met in New York. More about this work
About this work
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi designed this (January, 1878), aged 39. It is now at The Met in New York.
How it was made
- Colour woodblock print
- In Japan these were a team effort. The artist drew the design, a carver cut it into cherry-wood blocks, one block for each colour, and a printer brushed on the pigment and rubbed each sheet by hand. Full-colour prints of this kind were called nishiki-e, “brocade pictures”, from the 1760s on.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Japanese, 1839–1892
Yoshitoshi trained under Utagawa Kuniyoshi and became one of the last great designers of ukiyo-e, working through Japan’s rapid modernisation after 1868. His early work includes violent battle and ghost scenes; after a breakdown in the early 1870s he developed a more refined, inventive style. His late series, One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, draws on history, legend and literature, and he trained many pupils who carried his approach into the new century.
Written by Ochre Editions.
Ukiyo-e
Japanese woodblock prints of the floating world: actors, courtesans, landscapes and the sea.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Met has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 2007.49.315
- Credit
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Type
- Prints
- Department
- Asian Art
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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