Courageous warriors (Musha burui): 18: Taira no Kiyomori calls back the setting sun, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, artist, 1883-1886, Tokyo, woodcut, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s (1839-1892) career spanned the late Edo and early Meiji periods. He trained in the ie ‘studio’ of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861). His early works gave late Utagawa school theatricality an even greater sense of energy. A taste for lurid melodrama became progressively grotesque as he experienced periods of depression and hospitalisation that interrupted his professional activities.

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