UkiyoE NFT

The inspiration of the story originated from the renowned art piece “Gojo Bridge”, which is an illustration of the great battle on Gojo Ohashi Bridge in Kyoto, between the warrior monk, Benkei, and the swordsman Yoshitsune. This amazing masterpiece was created by the Japanese artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, whom has widely been recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e painting genre. Most notably, he is the bridge between one art generation to the next, he struggled against time and technology as the Japanese were adopting new western mass reproduction technologies such as photography and lithography, and the demand for woodblock handprint was declining drastically. Nevertheless, Yoshitoshi singlehandedly managed to push the boundary of the traditional craftsmanship and Japanese art genre to a new level, thus now made him universally regonized as the greatest Japanese artist in the 18th century.