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Yoshitoshi, artist
Japanese, 1839 - 1892
Masakiyo's Difficult Battle from Taiheiki Chronicles (Taiheiki Masakiyo nanzen no zu), 1866
Color woodcut triptych
35.1 x 24.7 cm (image); 35.3 x 24.2 cm (sheet)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1987.1.33a-c

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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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