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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Bodhisattva Kannon (Kannon Bosatsu, Guanyin), the buddhist goddess of mercy, calmly sitting on a rock over the raging sea.
Title: Nankai no tsuki (The Moon of the Southern Sea)
Series: Tsuki hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon)
Signature: Yoshitoshi
Seal: Taiso
Engraver: Enkatsu
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon
Date: Meiji 21 (1888)
Size: Vertical Oban, 32,9 x 22,5 cm (image size)
Very good impression and colour, with gaufrage (blind printing). Retains old album backing (in upper margin partly removed). Excellent condition.
Cf.: Stevenson, Yoshitoshi’s one hundred aspects of the moon, No. 68 (Ill.). Van den Ing/Schaap, Beauty & Violence, No. 54.68
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