Yoshitoshi

yoshitoshi worked through japan's most violent transition — the meiji restoration burning through edo's old world after two centuries of seclusion. his moonlight scenes pulled the supernatural and the historical into the same frame; he also drew gore and madness with a steadiness no one before him had managed. one hundred aspects of the moon, completed in the year of his death, is generally read as the last great ukiyo-e series before photography and lithography ended the form. moon at daimotsu bay, a plate from that set, is in the catalog.