Two women in blue beside hanging scrolls of pine and cranes

In a tatami room, a woman in a pale blue kimono fading to white at the hem stands looking down, red lining showing at her feet. Below her a second woman in dark blue kneels with her back to us, head turned in profile, holding a small cup. A red lacquer tray with a white sake bottle and blue-and-white dishes sits on the green floor, two hanging scrolls show pine and cranes, and a shaped pink-and-green title panel hangs at the upper right.

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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