Tsukioka Yoshitosi's best known work is Tsuki Hyakushi. This series has a hundred of Oban prints each related to the moon. Yoshitoshi started producing the series in 1885 and completed it in a year before his death.
This print depicts a Chinese mythology 'Joga Hougrtsu'. Joga, wife of Gei who is known as a good archer, drunk sovereign remedy betraying her husband. So she had to go up to the moon alone and live in a palace there in solitude.
The word 'Joga Hougrtsu' means 'Joga goes up to the moon'. The print represents her airy-fairy figure on the clouds.
Slightly stained, a hole in the upper margin
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi(1839-1892) is widely recognized as the last great master of Ukiyo-e. In addition, he is regarded as one of the form’s greatest innovator and an artist who was almost single handly struggle against the time and techonology for pushing the traditional Japanese woodblock prints to a new level.
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