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Uesugi no Terutora (Kenshin), riding into battle through clouds of smoke, from the series Yoshitoshi’s Courageous Warriors (Yoshitoshi musha burui)
Woodblock print, signed Taiso Yoshitoshi ga, published by Kobayashi Tetsujiro, 1883
Vertical oban (36.2 x 24.3 cm.)


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This is the first edition with three-colour cartouche, two red seals in the left margin and with the complete date comprising day, month and year.

For a similar impression in the collection of The National Diet Library, Tokyo, go to:
http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1302830
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