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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Six prints from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon and another
Six prints, each signed Yoshitoshi and sealed Taiso, published by Akiyama Buemon, 1886-89, and comprising:

1. Jade Rabbit - Sun Wukong (Gyokuto - Songoku)
2. Lady Gosechi (Gosechi no myobu)
3. Taira no Kiyotsune playing the flute at the stern of his warship, in 1183, before taking his own life (Daro no tsuki - Taira no Kiyotsune)
4. A demon appears before the Heian court official Minamoto no Tsunenobu (Tsunenobu)
5. The Moon of the Milky Way (Ginga no tsuki) - the lovers of the Tanabata festival
6. Rainy Moon - Kojima Takanori (uchu no tsuki - Kojima Takanori) - the 14th century warrior and scholar of Chinese history Kojima Takanori praying before a cherry tree

Together with another print:
7. The Ghost of Seigen haunting Sakurahime, from the series New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts (Shinkei Sanjurokkaisen), signed Yoshitoshi, published by Sasaki Toyokichi, 1889
All vertical oban (each approx. 35.8 x 24.2cm.)

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