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Yoshitoshi, artist
Japanese, 1839 - 1892
Shoki - from Thirty-six Ghosts and Demons, 1890
woodcut
33.8 x 22 cm (image); 37.5 x 24.2 cm (sheet)
Gift of Robert Flynn Johnson in Honor of Roger Keyes 1985.1.474

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Artist Biography: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Other names used: Yoshioka Kinzaburo, Yonejiro, Gyokuoro, Ikkaisai, Kaisai, Oju, Sokatei, after 1873 changed his family name to Taiso; Ukiyo-e printmaker; lived in Tokyo; pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi; also studied with Kikuchi Yosai and was adopted by Tsukioka Sessai; in the 1870s worked as a newspaper illustrator; one of the last true ukiyo-e artists working in the mainstream of the late ukiyo-e tradition; died mentally deranged;

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