Feeling Warm
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
14 x 9 3/8 in. (35.6 x 23.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Meiji period (1868–1912)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1985
Accession Number
JP3687a
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Feeling Warm** by Tsukioka Yoshhi, created in 1888, the elegance of Meiji-era Japan (1868–1912), a time of rapid modernization blending traditional arts with Western influences. Yoshitoshi, often called the last master of ukiyo-e—the "pictures of the floating world"—was renowned for his bijin-ga prints depicting beautiful women with emotional depth and refined beauty. This intimate scene, tagged simply with "Women," likely evokes a of cozy domesticity, reflecting the era's fascination with feminine grace amid societal change. Printed in vibrant ink and color on paper, the work exemplifies t...
About the Artist
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 1839–1892
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was born on April 30, 1839, in the Shimbashi district of Edo, the city that would become Tokyo. At the age of eleven he was apprenticed to Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print, who gave the boy the artist name 'Yoshitoshi' as a mark of lineage within the Utagawa School. From Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi absorbed the full tradition of ukiyo-e — th...