# 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._

7 works in the collection.

- [Received Back into the Moon Palace-Taketori (Bamboo Cutter) from the series Twelve Aspects of the Moon](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/received-back-into-the-moon-palace-taketori-bamboo-cutter-fr-aic-212351), Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, c. 1885/92. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Moon of Enlightenment, from the series Twelve Aspects of the Moon](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/moon-of-enlightenment-from-the-series-twelve-aspects-of-the-aic-212354), Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, About 1885-92. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Frost fills the air and the autumn air is still/lines of returning geese cross the moon in the third hour-Kenshin, from the series Twelve Aspects of the Moon](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/frost-fills-the-air-and-the-autumn-air-is-still-lines-of-ret-aic-212358), Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1885/92. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [In The Mood for a Walk (Yuho ga shitaso), from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)"](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/in-the-mood-for-a-walk-yuho-ga-shitaso-from-the-series-thirt-aic-28971), Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1888. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [Fudō Myōō Threatening a Novice](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/fudo-myoo-threatening-a-novice-met-72828), Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1885. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Postal Hōchi Newspaper no. 645, Englishman raping a wine shopkeeper's daughter (Yūbin Hōchi shinbun, roppyaku yonjū gogō)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/postal-hochi-newspaper-no-645-englishman-raping-a-wine-shopk-met-73624), Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, August, 1875. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Collection of Desires, Wish for Foreign Travel (Mitate Tai zukushi-yōkō ga shitai)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/collection-of-desires-wish-for-foreign-travel-mitate-tai-zuk-met-73628), Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, January, 1878. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.