Set of three prints by Yoshitoshi and a triptych by Kuniyoshi, Japan, 19th century1- From the series "Mirror of the Famous Generals of Japan" / Dai Nipon meisho kagami - 大日本名将鑑 and made between 1876 and 1882. Format ôban tate e. Taira no Koremochi cutting a demon (1879). Signed ôju Yoshitoshi hitsu. Taiso seal. Publisher: Kumagai (1-11), Funazu Chujiro. Engravers: Hori Mina, Horiko Ota Hidekatsu. Ca. 1879. 2- From the series "Twenty-four Achievements in Imperial Japan" - Kōkoku nijūshikō - 皇國 二十四 功 and produced between 1881 and 1887. Format ôban tate e. Haruhira finds her father cruelly imprisoned by the Chinese - Hitsu (no) Saishō Haruhira. Signed Yoshitoshi hitsu. Yoshitoshi seal. Publisher: Matsuki Heikichi, second posthumous edition made between 1893 and 1895. Wear and stain on top left . 3- From the series "The brave warriors of Yoshitoshi - Yoshitoshi musha burui - 芳年 武者 旡類 and made between December 1883 and October 1886. Format ôban tate e. Danjō Matsunaga Hisahide breaks a cup and prepares for seppuku (ritual suicide). Signed: Taiso Yoshitoshi ga. Editor: Kobayashi Tetsujirō. Engravers : Horikō Muneoka, Wada, unidentified. Some wear and wormholes in the lower right corner. 4- "Earth spider summons demons to the mansion of Minamoto no Raiko" - Minamoto no Yorimitsu-ko no yakatani tsuchigumo yokai o nasu zu" - 源頼光公館土蜘作妖怪圖. Triptych format ôban tate e . Minamoto no Yorimitsu (on the right) is lying sick in his bed. Two of his bodyguards, Watanabe no Tsuna and Sakata no Kintoki, are playing go (center), while Urabe no Suetake (right) and Usui no Tadamitsu (left) watch the procession of spirits (yokai) in the background. Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburo. Ca. 1843.
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Set of three prints by Yoshitoshi and a triptych by Kuniyoshi, Japan, 19th century1-
From the series "Mirror of the Famous Generals of Japan" / Dai Nipon meisho kagami - 大日本名将鑑 and made between 1876 and 1882. Format ôban tate e.
Taira no Koremochi cutting a demon (1879).
Signed ôju Yoshitoshi hitsu. Taiso seal.
Publisher: Kumagai (1-11), Funazu Chujiro.
Engravers: Hori Mina, Horiko Ota Hidekatsu.
Ca. 1879.
2- From the series "Twenty-four Achievements in Imperial Japan" - Kōkoku nijūshikō - 皇國 二十四 功 and produced between 1881 and 1887. Format ôban tate e.
Haruhira finds her father cruelly imprisoned by the Chinese - Hitsu (no) Saishō Haruhira.
Signed Yoshitoshi hitsu. Yoshitoshi seal.
Publisher: Matsuki Heikichi, second posthumous edition made between 1893 and 1895.
Wear and stain on top left
.
3- From the series "The brave warriors of Yoshitoshi - Yoshitoshi musha burui - 芳年 武者 旡類 and made between December 1883 and October 1886. Format ôban tate e.
Danjō Matsunaga Hisahide breaks a cup and prepares for seppuku (ritual suicide).
Signed: Taiso Yoshitoshi ga.
Editor: Kobayashi Tetsujirō.
Engravers : Horikō Muneoka, Wada, unidentified.
Some wear and wormholes in the lower right corner.
4- "Earth spider summons demons to the mansion of Minamoto no Raiko" - Minamoto no Yorimitsu-ko no yakatani tsuchigumo yokai o nasu zu" - 源頼光公館土蜘作妖怪圖. Triptych format ôban tate e .
Minamoto no Yorimitsu (on the right) is lying sick in his bed. Two of his bodyguards, Watanabe no Tsuna and Sakata no Kintoki, are playing go (center), while Urabe no Suetake (right) and Usui no Tadamitsu (left) watch the procession of spirits (yokai) in the background.
Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburo.
Ca. 1843.
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