Noisy: A Young Woman of the Kansei Period with a Purring Cat
Art
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was a painter and print designer. He was also a pupil of the great Utagawa Kuniyoshi (check his works in our Archive). In the last years of the Edo period, Yoshitoshi created many prints of warriors, beauties, and actors, including some notable works in the sadistic, blood-drenched taste then prevalent. During 1872 and 1873, he suffered from a mental illness that would trouble him again in his last years. He was also influenced by the style of Kikuchi Yosai, combining this with elements derived from European art into a personal idiom and illustrating mainly historical subjects. Starting in1874 he created illustrations for color woodblock
