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Item #109015602

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Kokin Hime Kagami, Wife of Akechi Mitsuhide

Item No

#109015602

Item

Ukiyo-e(Beauty)

Artist

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Price

$500.00

Weight

0.01kg

size

width

24cm 9 1/2"

depth

36cm 14 1/4"

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Kokin Himekagami is a series of beauty created by Yoshitoshi, issued around 1876. Yoshitoshi is well-known for Muzan-e, atrocious pictures, but he also produced excellent beauties like "Fuzoku 32 So".

The artwork is depicted with a subject of Hiroko, Wife of Akechi Mitsuhide, Warrior of the Sengoku era. During the hard time in which the castle fell down and they were compelled to wander about, Hiroko sold her long black hair to make money for living. This is why her name is recalled so often even now as a model of good mother. Also, looking at such dedicated wife, Mitsuhide didn't get any other woman as concubine until Hiroko passed away.

Good condition, colors and impression.

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.