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Item #108004562

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's Brocade Picture, "The Shinmei Sumo Wrestling"

Item No

#108004562

Item

Ukiyo-e(People)

Artist

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Price

$380.00

Weight

0.01kg

size

width

50cm 19 3/4"

height

37cm 14 1/2"

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This artwork is expressing a fight between a Sumo wrestler and firemen happened on the premise of Shiba Shinmei. On your right hand, is shown the Sumo wrester performing a big scuffle against the firemen encouraged by his companies looking strong. On your left hand, are shown the firemen fighting back against the Sumo wrestler. There is a proverb, "Fire and fight are Edo's attractions". This is an excellent artwork expressing such Edo's culture.

Good impression, colors and condition.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - June 9, 1892) (also named Taiso Yoshitoshi) was a Japanese artist.

He is widely recognized as the last great master of Ukiyo-e, a type of Japanese woodblock printing. He is additionally regarded as one of the form's greatest innovators. His career spanned two eras – the last years of feudal Japan, and the first years of modern Japan following the Meiji Restoration. Like many Japanese, Yoshitoshi was interested in new things from the rest of the world, but over time he became increasingly concerned with the loss of many outstanding aspects of traditional Japanese culture, among them traditional woodblock printing.

By the end of his career, Yoshitoshi was in an almost single-handed struggle against time and technology. As he worked on in the old manner, Japan was adopting Western mass reproduction methods like photography and lithography. Nonetheless, in a Japan that was turning away from its own past, he almost singlehandedly managed to push the traditional Japanese woodblock print to a new level, before it effectively died with him.