Ogata Gekkō

Ogata Gekkō (尾形月耕, 1859 – 1 October 1920) was a Japanese artist best known as a painter and a designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints.

His father, tradesman Nakagami Seijirō (名鏡 清次郎), died in 1876, and Gekkō took to work in a lantern shop in Kyōbashi Yumi-chō.

In 1885, Gekkō exhibited in the Painting Appreciation Society, and he became acquainted with art scholars Ernest Fenellosa and Okakura Kakuzō.

At the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, he won a prize for Edo Sannō matsuri (江戸山王祭, "Edo’s Sannō Festival"), and in 1904, he won the Gold Prize for the series Fuji hyakkei (富士百景, "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji")[4] at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

[1] His work was originally closely based upon that of Kikuchi Yōsai; and he was inspired by Hokusai, creating a series of one hundred prints of Mount Fuji.

Ryūshōten ( 龍昇天 , "Dragon Rising up to Heaven" )
A dragon ascends towards the heavens with Mount Fuji in the background in this print from Gekko's Views of Mount Fuji .
An incident in the Battle of Weihaiwei during the First Sino-Japanese War . Major General Ōdera at the cliff, 1895 — Woodblock print by Ogata Gekkō, ink and color on paper triptych; 37.9 x 72.8 cm (14 15/16 x 28 11/16 in.) in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston .
The swordsmith Munechika being aided by a kitsune fox spirit, in a print by Gekkō.