Xilografia originale - Carta Washi - Albero di pino - Tsukioka Taiso Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) - 'The Moon and the Abandoned Old Woman' 姥捨月 - From the series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" 月百姿 - Giappone - 1891 (Meiji 24)

Original woodblock print - Tsukioka Taiso Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) - 'Obasute no tsuki' 姥捨月 (The Moon and the Abandoned Old Woman) - From the series "Tsuki hyaku sugata" 月百姿 (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon) - Japan - 1891 (Meiji 24)

Artist: Tsukioka Taiso Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)

Title: 'Obasute no tsuki' 姥捨月 (The Moon and the Abandoned Old Woman)

Series title: "Tsuki hyaku sugata" 月百姿 (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon)

Publisher: Akiyama Buemon

Date: 1891 (Meiji 24)

Size: 24.5 x 35.8 cm

Condition: Light soiling, crease on the right margin, some blue pigment spotted

See British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1906-1220-0-1417

'One Hundred Aspects of the Moon' is one of Yoshitoshi's most popular series. It contains one hundred woodblock prints depicting various, unrelated figures from Japanese and Chinese culture, with the moon as its unifying theme and exploring a range of tones and emotions for the subjects depicted. Yoshitoshi worked within a traditional art form, yet his drawings incorporated western techniques and were unlike any style that had come before him. The series was begun in 1885 and completed just before the artist's death in 1892.