Crane bride Japanese tales / Japanese Ukiyo-e Drawing by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

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Japanese Ukiyo-e by Tukioka Yokutoshi (1839-1892). Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, a pupil of Kuniyoshi, was a painter who lived up to the tradition of ukiyoe in the Edo period and is known as “the last ukiyoe artist”. He also painted a large number of yokai (Japanese monsters), and the yokai depicted in “One Hundred Tales of the Japanese and Chinese Warriors” (from his mature period) and “One Hundred Forms of the Moon” (from his mature period) are both bold and delicate. The “Thirty-six Newly Painted Monsters”, painted in his later years, is an incomparable work that expresses monsters in a mixture of reality and delusion shown by “nerves”.