In the past decades we have been present before great artists and illustrators from Japan and that they have been the precursors of the manga. Some Japanese comic strips that have spread everywhere and that today flood all the stores that still exist in certain cities and towns of our country.
Before that anime, there were certain illustration artists who were the ones who They collected classical Japanese culture as with the great Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, engraver of the XNUMXth century. An illustrator of his times in which he showed through his engravings the most notable aspects of the culture of the Japanese country.
Ukiyo-e is the engraving technique used by this XNUMXth century Japanese engraver and that it is a form of woodcut that we could express as paintings of the floating world. Engravings that had their great importance in a town where novels sold more if they were illustrated.
This led to independent prints being created and a product as manga is today. The funny thing is that its subject matter ranged from high culture to warmongering, almost touching on any topic that was more considered by the middle classes than by those who were in the highest echelons.
Tsukioka produced graphic works of sex, violence and horror and depicted bloody battle scenes that we now refer to as gore. An artist who had to deal in his life, apart from his great popularity, with his metal disease that continued to deteriorate until he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital to die on June 9, 1892 at the age of fifty-three.
An illustrator who had more than eighty apprentices and that he has been admired for his work "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon", a series of recordings showing Japanese and Chinese history and legends.
A unique artist for his sensitivity and admiration for women that he portrayed, while in his work there is a more human tone, although he touched on various themes.