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A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION OF PRINTS BY UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Meisho Kyushu yori joraku no toki

Woodblock print, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, published by Santetsu, circa 1850
Vertical oban triptych (each sheet approx. 38 x 26cm.)
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Captain and nobleman Yoshibei leaps from his vessel to a rock and sacrifices himself to save his ship off the coast of Buzen Province.

Catalogued in B.W. Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints, (Oxford, 1982), T251.

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