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TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-92)
Meiji era (1868-1912), 1890
An oban tate-e triptych of Ichikawa Danjuro IX as Benkei in the play
Kanjincho, dated 1890, published by Akiyama Buemon, signed Oju
Yoshitoshi ga (on the left sheet) (3)
14 1/2 x 9 3/4in (36.8 x 24.7cm) each approximately

$4,000 - 6,000
Another impression is illustrated in in Shinichi Segi, Tsukioka
Yoshitoshi gashu, Tokyo: Kodansha, 1978, p.21, pl.28; and in the
English translation Alfred Birnbaum tr., Yoshitoshi, The Splendid
Decadent, Tokyo/New York/San Francisco: Kodansha International,
1985, p.99, pl.104.

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