The competion in magic tricks between Hakamadare Yasusuke and Kidomaru (Hakamadare Yasusuke Kidomaru jutsu kurabe no zu)

About this artwork

hoogte 714 mm (Vertical oban diptych) x breedte 246 mm

About the Artist

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 1839–1892

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was born on April 30, 1839, in the Shimbashi district of Edo, the city that would become Tokyo. At the age of eleven he was apprenticed to Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print, who gave the boy the artist name 'Yoshitoshi' as a mark of lineage within the Utagawa School. From Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi absorbed the full tradition of ukiyo-e — th...