Yoshitoshi
1839–1892
The last master — and the one who refused to let it end.
Yoshitoshi is widely recognized as the last great master of ukiyo-e, and one of its greatest innovators. His career spanned two eras — the final years of feudal Japan and the first years of the modern Meiji period. Where others surrendered the tradition to photography and lithography, Yoshitoshi held the line — not out of nostalgia, but because he believed the woodblock print still had something left to say. His One Hundred Aspects of the Moon is a final, luminous proof that he was right.
