Description: A JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892), CIRCA 1885
From the series of thirty three prints, Yoshitoshi musha burui -Yoshitoshi's Courageous Warriors. The print entitled, 'Taira Sokoku Kiyomori calls back the setting sun'. Signed Taiso Yoshitoshi Ga. 2nd Edition, C.1885
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31.5cm x 21.5cm
OTHER NOTES:
This series dates from the end of Yoshitoshi's career, when he was about forty-four and very shortly before his well-known masterpieces, "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" (1885-1892) and "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts" (1889-1892).