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Kanaki Toshikage (worked about 1890)
Memorial portrait of Tsukioka (Taiso) Yoshitoshi, and a poem by Yoshitoshi:
„Yo o tsumete terimasarishi wa natsu no tsuki“ (Making the night seem brief, he outshone them all: the summer moon)
Transcription and translation after Van den Ing/Schaap, Beauty & Violence
Title: Taiso Yoshitoshi zu (Portrait of Taiso Yoshitoshi)
Signature: Toshikage …sha
Seal: Toshikage
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon
Date: Meiji 15 (1892)
Size: Oban, 35,4 x 24 cm
Very good impression and colours, with glossy overprint. Originally mounted (as usual). A few weak and tiny spots, a small paper fault, otherwise very good condition. Rare item.
Fig. in Van den Ing/Schaap, Beauty & Violence, p 8, fig.1. Stevenson, Yoshitoshi’s one hundred aspects of the moon, p 10.
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