A laughing palace maid leans over a red balustrade

A woman with an elaborate dark coiffure leans laughing over a bright red field, mouth open to show her blackened teeth, one hand resting on the red surface. She wears a deep blue-purple kimono over an olive-green under-robe patterned with white flowers, with an olive hexagon-patterned obi and a dangling beaded ornament. A title cartouche and text panel sit at upper right, with a red seal below the signature. From the series Fūzoku sanjūni sō (Thirty-two Aspects of Customs and Manners).

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892) was the last major master of ukiyo-e, working through the upheaval of the Meiji era. A pupil of Kuniyoshi, he moved from violent early war prints to the psychological intensity of his mature series — One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (1885–92) and New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts — in which history, legend and theatre are staged by moonlight. His draughtsmanship and unusual use of colour carried the woodblock print into the modern period. His prints are held by the British Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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