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Yoshitoshi, artist
Japanese, 1839 - 1892
Battle of Sanno Shrine (Todai sannozan no zu), circa 1874
Color woodcut triptych
34.8 x 69.4 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1987.1.101

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Artist Biography: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Other names used: Yoshioka Kinzaburo, Yonejiro, Gyokuoro, Ikkaisai, Kaisai, Oju, Sokatei, after 1873 changed his family name to Taiso; Ukiyo-e printmaker; lived in Tokyo; pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi; also studied with Kikuchi Yosai and was adopted by Tsukioka Sessai; in the 1870s worked as a newspaper illustrator; one of the last true ukiyo-e artists working in the mainstream of the late ukiyo-e tradition; died mentally deranged;

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