Top Quality Art - BENKE is a painting by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi which was uploaded on August 7th, 2018.
Top Quality Art - BENKE
【TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI】
「BENKE」
(Top Quality Image Edition)
月岡芳年 「大物海上月 弁慶」... more
Title
Top Quality Art - BENKE
Artist
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Medium
Painting - Woodprint
Description
【TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI】
「BENKE」
(Top Quality Image Edition)
月岡芳年 「大物海上月 弁慶」 【最高画質版】
【Tsukioka Yoshitoshi】
(Japanese: 月岡 芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi 大蘇 芳年; 30 April 1839 – 9 June 1892) was a Japanese artist.
He is widely recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting. He is also regarded as one of the form's greatest innovators. His career spanned two eras – the last years of Edo period 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 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.
His life is perhaps best summed up by John Stevenson:
Yoshitoshi's courage, vision and force of character gave ukiyo-e another generation of life, and illuminated it with one last burst of glory.
— John Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, 1992
His reputation has only continued to grow, both in the West, and among younger Japanese, and he is now almost universally recognized as the greatest Japanese artist of his era.
【月岡 芳年】(つきおか よしとし)
1839年4月30日(天保10年3月17日) - 1892年(明治25年)6月9日)は、幕末から明治前期にかけて活動した浮世絵師。姓は吉岡(よしおか)、のちに月岡。本名は米次郎(よねじろう)。画号は、一魁斎芳年(いっかいさい よしとし)、魁斎(かいさい)、玉桜楼(ぎょくおうろう)、咀華亭(そかてい)、子英、そして最後に大蘇芳年(たいそ よしとし)を用いた。
河鍋暁斎、落合芳幾、歌川芳藤らは歌川国芳に師事した兄弟弟子の関係にあり、特に落合芳幾は競作もした好敵手であった。また、多くの浮世絵師や日本画家とその他の画家が、芳年門下もしくは彼の画系に名を連ねている。
【武蔵坊 弁慶】
(MUSASHIBO BENKE / むさしぼう べんけい)
武藏坊辨慶 - 文治5年閏4月30日〈1189年6月15日〉)は、平安時代末期の僧衆(僧兵)。源義経の郎党。
『義経記』では熊野別当の子で、紀伊国出身だと言われるが詳細は不明。元は比叡山の僧で武術を好み、五条の大橋で義経と出会って以来、郎党として彼に最後まで仕えたとされる。講談などでは、義経に仕える怪力無双の荒法師として名高く、ほか創作の世界でも義経と並んで主役格の人気があり、怪力の者や豪傑の代名詞としても広く用いられている。
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August 7th, 2018