Three generations of print artists:

Meiji era 明治時代　 1868-1911

LATE EDO UKIYO-E

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国 (1769-1825)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳 (1798-1861)

•  warrior prints, example of Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Specter from the Kabuki play “The Palace of Soma.” c. 1845. Polychrome woodblock print.   [Mason, fig. 330]  

MEIJI RESTORATION 1868

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1838-1892)

•  studied with Kuniyoshi from 1850 through 1861

•  One Hundred Ghost Stories from China and Japan.   1865.   Polychrome woodblock print [Mason, fig. 455].  

•  Twenty-eight famous murders. 1866-67. Polychrome woodblock print.

•  Fujiwara no Yasumasu Playing the Flute by Moonlight.   1883. Polychrome woodblock print.

•  Hag of Adachigahara.   1885.   Polychrome woodblock print.

•  New Forms of Thirty-six Ghosts.   1889-1892. Polychrome woodblock print.

Kobayashi Kiyochika 小林清親 (1847-1915)

•  Tennoji in Yanaka, Tokyo, from the series Kiyochika Ponchi [Kiyochika Punch].   c. 1881.   Polychrome woodblock print.   [Mason, fig. 456]

•  Second Army Attacks Port Arthur , November 1894.   Polychrome woodblock triptych.   [Mason, fig. 457]

YOKOHAMA PRINTS 横浜市版画 (figs. 401, 402)

•  Place/mapping

•  Ethnicities

•  Food

•  Dress

•  transportation