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Date : 1860
Size : O-ban
Impression : Good
Condition : Good
Detail : Creased / Slight browning / Restored very small wormholes / Depiction of Tattoo
Fires and fights were known as “Edo flowers” because there were frequent terrible fires in Edo-era, therefore, the firefighters were popular among young people of the Edo-era.
Yoshitora was one of the pupils of Kuniyoshi and was active from the end of the Edo-shogunate to the Meiji era. In 1968, he become the second artist of the Ukiyo-e artist ranking, and it tells us that he had actually been known in the Ukiyo-e field.
He had especially been known with artworks of the depictions of the new culture which came from overseas and the scenery of Yokohama where thrived as the international town. In the era, general citizens hadn't seen the actual western cultures, architecture from foreign countries, and the fashions, so people could know it from Ukiyo-es.