YOSHITOSHI  (1839-1892).  Minamoto no Yoshimitsu. (Sold)

YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892). Minamoto no Yoshimitsu. (Sold)

Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Subject: Minamoto no Yoshimitsu (1056-1127) is instructing a special tune with "sho" (a musical instrument of many reeds) to Toyohara no Tokiaki.
Series: Dai Nippon meisho kagami (Mirror of famous leaders of the Great Japan).
Signature: Ōju Yoshitoshi. Artist seal Taiso.
Date: Meiji 12 (1879)
Publisher: Funazu Chujiro.
Size: Oban tate-e, 36,5x23,5 cm.
Medium: Woodblock color print.
Literature: Roger Keyes. Courage and Silence: A Study of the Life and Color Woodblock Prints of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: 1839-1892. Ann Arbor, 1983 series 334.
Conditions: Fine impression, color and conditions.
Item no: C 1039
Status: Sold