Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)

Print with a man under the rain

24.3 x 36 cm

Dates: 1865 

Size: Ōban 

Signed: Kaisai Yoshitoshi hitsu

Seal: Kiri

Publisher: Iseki 

Block carver: Hori Ōta Tashichi

Printer: Kōrai

in Yoshitoshi's series 'Kinsei kyōgiden (近世 侠義傳 – Biographies of Modern Men)'.

It dates from quite early in Yoshitoshi's career, when he was about twenty-six, two decades before his well-known masterpieces such as his great series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" (1885-1892), and "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts" (often called simply "Thirty-Six Ghosts") (1889-1892).

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