# Moon of Enlightenment, from the series Twelve Aspects of the Moon, in Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi painted this in about 1885-92, aged about 46. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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## The work

- Date: About 1885-92
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions: Painting: 105.5 × 40.7 cm (41 9/16 × 16 in.); With mounting: 203.9 × 48.3 cm (80 1/4 × 19 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.557
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Tsukioka Yoshitoshi](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/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.

7 works in the collection.

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