Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (?? ??; 30 April 1839 - 9 June 1892; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi ?? ??) was a Japanese artist.

He is widely recognized as the last great master of Ukiyo-e; a type of Japanese woodblock printing. He is additionally regarded as one of the form's greatest innovators. His career spanned two eras - the last years of Edo period Japan; and the first years of modern Japan following the Meiji Restoration. Like many Japanese; Yoshitoshi was interested in new things from the rest of the world; but over time he became increasingly concerned with the loss of many aspects of traditional Japanese culture; among them traditional woodblock printing.

Eimei nijuhasshuku (?? ??? ?? or 鈥?8 Famous Murders with Verse'); also known as the 'Bloody Prints'; is a collection of Japanese ukiyo-e from the 1860s; which depicted gruesome acts of murder or torture based on historical events or scenes in Kabuki plays. Although most of the works are solely violent by nature; it is perhaps the first known example of ero guro or the erotic grotesque in Japanese culture; an art sub-genre which depicts either erotic or extreme images of violence and mutilation.