Tsukioka yoshitoshi biography for kids
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| Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Photograph at age 43 (c. 1882) | ||||
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年 1839–1892) is often called the last great master of ukiyo-e. Gifted, imaginative, and innovative, Yoshitoshi worked from the end of the Edo period until more than two decades into the Meiji period over the course of a 40-year career. He witnessed the collapse of the old feudal order and the embrace of Western culture and technology, which had a profound effect on Japanese society beginning with the signing of treaties opening up Japan to foreign trade in 1854. One senses this turmoil in much of Yoshitoshi's oeuvre as he sought to maintain previous cultural norms and artistic aims while also assimilating some of the new aspects of "enlightenment."
Yoshitoshi was the son of a wealthy merchant
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The artist who is often called the last great master of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings fryst vatten Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年 1839–1892) whose original name was Owariya Yonejirô. Gifted, imaginative, and innovative, Yoshitoshi worked from the end of the Edo period until more than two decades into the Meiji period over the course of a 40-year career. He witnessed the collapse of the old feudal beställning and the embrace of Western culture and technology, which had a profound effect on Japanese kultur beginning with the signing of treaties opening up Japan to foreign trade in 1854. One senses this turmoil in much of Yoshitoshi's oeuvre as he sought to maintain previous cultural norms and artistic aims while also assimilating some of the new aspects of "enlightenment."
Yoshitoshi was the son of a wealthy merchant named Owariya Kinzaburô (1815-1863) who was able to buy himself a position in the family of the samurai Yoshioka Hyôbu (1796-1855), which granted his
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Brief Biography of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡 芳年), as he is now most often known, was born in old Edo, in 1839; he was originally named Owariya Yonejiro (米次郎).
His father, Owariya Kinzaburō (1815 - 1863) was a well-off merchant; his mother is unknown, but she and Yoshitoshi's father may have divorced when he was young. Yoshitoshi's grandfather (Yoshioka Hyōbu, as he came to be named, 1796-1855) bought his way into samurai status, so at that point the entire family took the name Yoshioka (吉岡).
Yoshitoshi left home while fairly young (the exact age is unknown, but it may bave been as early as the age of 3) to live with his uncle (or father's cousin, sources differ on the exact relationship), Kyōya Orizaburō, a son-less pharmacist, who was very fond of his nephew.
In 1850, at the age of 11, he was apprenticed to Kuniyoshi, one of great masters of the Japanese