Received Back into the Moon Palace-Taketori (Bamboo Cutter) from the series Twelve Aspects of the Moon
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
c. 1885/92
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk
Dimensions
105.5 × 40.7 cm (41 9/16 × 16 in.)
Classification
scroll
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
212351
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...