Tsukioka yoshitoshi (1839-1892) was the most important japanese woodcut artist of the meiji period (1868-1912). He saw his work as the culmination of the ukiyo-e tradition of the preceding edo period,. Tsukioka yoshitoshi was born in edo in 1839 to a wealthy merchant family.

Yoshitoshi learned the elements of western drawing techniques and. Tsukioka yoshitoshi was a man in transition, cycling from wealth to poverty, plagued by mental illness, and trapped between edo tradition and meiji modernism. Yoshitoshi was darkly impacted by the. Artworks see all 44 artworks 11 p. m. , from the series twenty-four hours at shinyanagi (shinyanagi nijuyoji), 1880 tsukioka yoshitoshi fujiwara no yasumasa playing his flute in the moonlight, about.