Fine Japanese Prints

Fine Japanese Prints

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 134. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) | Nichiren Saves the Cormorant Fisherman (Nichiren shonin isawagawa nite ukai no meikon o saido shitamau no zo) | Meiji period, late 19th century.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) | Nichiren Saves the Cormorant Fisherman (Nichiren shonin isawagawa nite ukai no meikon o saido shitamau no zo) | Meiji period, late 19th century

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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)

Nichiren Saves the Cormorant Fisherman (Nichiren shonin isawagawa nite ukai no meikon o saido shitamau no zo)

Meiji period, late 19th century

 

woodblock print, triptych, signed Yoshitoshi ga (Pictured by Yoshitoshi), sealed Taiso, published by Akiyama Buemon (Kokkeido), 1885

 

Vertical oban triptych: each sheet approx. 35.6 x 24.2 cm., 14 x 9½ in.

For a similar impression in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, accession number P.17-2003, go to:

https://yoshitoshi.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore/the-priest-nichiren-praying-for-the-restless-spirit