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Date : 1864
Size : O-ban / Triptych
Impression : Good
Condition : Good
Detail : Restored binding holes
Minamoto no Yorimitsu and Fujiwara no Yasumasa are leading a large army to defeat the bandits led by Shuten-Doji, who have been ravaging Kyoto.
The legend of Shuten-Doji has been the basis for many traditional stories of demon extermination.
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 an 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.