Information
Date : 1871
Size : O-ban
Impression : Good
Condition : Good
Detail : Slight browning / Restored binding holes
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 in 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 for artwork 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. Shopping Guide & Information of the Japanese Prints