, sometimes called , (April 18, 1869 – February 25, 1927) was a Japanese artist of the Meiji period. He was a student and adopted son of

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Tsukioka Yoshitoshi ( ja, 月岡芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi ; 30 April 1839 – 9 June 1892) was a Japanese printmaker. Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric. (2005)"Tsukoka Kōgyō"in ''Japan Encyclopedia,'' p. 1000. Yoshitoshi h ...

, and also studied with

Ogata Gekkō was a Japanese artist best known as a painter and a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock printing, woodblock prints. He was self-taught in art, and won numerous national and international prizes and was one of the earliest Japanese artists to w ...

. Although Kōgyo sometimes painted other subjects, for most of his career he made pictures of Japanese

noh is a major form of classical Japanese dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century. Developed by Kan'ami and his son Zeami, it is the oldest major theatre art that is still regularly performed today. Although the terms Noh and ' ...

theatre, either as large-scale paintings or colored woodblock prints. Many of the latter were published in series and sold as multi-volume sets. Some sets, such as ''Nōgaku zue'', have been preserved as albums in their original bindings, including accordion-style bindings known as ''orihon,'' while other sets such as ''Nōga taikan'', were issued in sewn bindings known as ''yamato toji''. Although most bound sets belong to institutional collections, individual prints by Kōgyo can still be found through dealers specializing in Japanese prints.

References

*Mizuta Museum of Art (2005). ''Kindai no Nōgakka: Tsukioka Kōgyo ten''. Tōgane-shi: Jōsai Kokusai Daigaku Mizuta Bijutsukan. *Merritt, Helen and Nanako Yamada (1992). ''Guide to Modern Japanese Prints: 1900-1975.'' Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. *Bondi, Don. "Tsukioka Kôgyo and Nô Ukioyo-e." ''Daruma'' 52, Vol.13, no.4 (Autumn 2006), 12–24. *Schaap, Robert and

J. Thomas Rimer J. Thomas Rimer (born 2 March 1933) is an American scholar of Japanese literature and drama. He is a Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature, Theatre, and Art at the University of Pittsburgh. He has served as the chief of the Asian Division of th ...

(2010). ''The Beauty of Silence: Japanese Nō and Nature Prints by Tsukioka Kōgyo 1869-1927''. Leiden: Hotei Publishing.

External links

Image from 'Nōgaku Zue' at the Walters Art MuseumKōgyo prints at the Art Institute of ChicagoKōgyo prints at the Ruth Chandler Williamson GalleryKōgyo prints at the Los Angeles County Museum of ArtKōgyo prints at the Frick Art & Historical Center
1869 births 1927 deaths Ukiyo-e artists People of Meiji-period Japan Artists from Tokyo 19th-century Japanese painters 20th-century Japanese painters 20th-century printmakers {{Japan-painter-stub