Yoshitoshi: Diptych. Yoshitsune learning fighting from the Tengu King. (Sold)

Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title: Diptych. Yoshitsune learning fighting from the Tengu King.
Series: Yoshitoshi Manga (Sketches by Yoshitoshi)
Date: 1886

We see the young Yoshitsune on the left balancing on a cherry branch that is being held by the mythical Tengu King, Dai Sôjôbô as blossoms fall all around. Very early edition.

Dimensions: oban diptych
Publisher: Kobayashi Tetsujirô
Literature: See Beauty & Violence number 57.7; page 82
Seal: Taiso
Signature: Yoshitoshi ga

SKU: YOT233