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Yoshitoshi, artist
Japanese, 1839 - 1892
Duel Between Inuzuka Shino and Inukai Kenpachi on the Roof of Horyukaku Tower of Koga Castle Beside the Tone River, from Takizawa Bakin's Story of the Eight Dogs of the Satomi Clan, 1885
Color woodcut vertical diptych
72 x 24.5 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1982.1.85

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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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