Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年) (artist 04/30/1839 – 06/09/1892)
Sangoku Tarō (三國太郎) from the series Sagas of Beauty and Bravery (Biyū Suikoden - 美勇水滸伝)
11/1866
7 in x 9.375 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Ikkai Yoshitoshi ga
魁斎芳年
Publisher: Ōmiya Kyūjirō (Marks 415 - seal 30-034)
Combined date and aratame censor seal: 11/1866
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Marega Collection, Universita Pontificia Salesiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Bibliothèque nationale de France - #51 in an album
National Gallery of Victoria
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Ville de Genève
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München "The chūban prints from this series were printed two to a block and then cut... The production of the set lasted from 4/1866-4/1867. Once completed, it was issued with an unsigned, undated title page and a contents page that itemised all fifty prints, with the signature Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga (picture by Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi) and the name of Kanagaki Robun in the left margin."
Quoted from: Yoshitoshi: Masterpieces from the Ed Freis Collection, page 85. The authors note that there appears to be a later edition where the publisher's seal has been left blank.
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There are 8 other images from this series in the Lyon Collection (#s 404, 1076, 1103, 1104, 1156, 1157, 1188 and 1189), plus the frontispiece (#1191) and title page (#1190).
Ōmiya Kyūjirō (近江屋久次郎) (publisher)
Yūrei-zu (幽霊図 - ghosts demons monsters and spirits) (genre)
warrior prints (musha-e - 武者絵) (genre)
Suikoden (水滸傳) (genre)
Kanagaki Robun (仮名垣魯文) (author)