Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 58086

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Artist / 作者: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi月岡芳年
Date / 年代: 1882
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / kruml
Digital record / 画像記録: 2010 × 1038 px
Source collection / 所蔵元: Japanese Prints London
Published by / 公開者: 小春ユイ
Rights / 権利: No commercial-app permission documented
Attribution / 表記: Japanese Prints London

Catalog note / 解説

The Heian courtier Fujiwara no Yasumasa playing the flute by moonlight. Based on a painting Yoshitoshi exhibited at the Exhibition for the Advancement of Painting in the autumn of 1882. The story relates that while Fujiwara no Yasumasa was playing on Ichihara Moor he was approached by the bandit Kidomaru who intended to kill him. Instead he was overcome by the beauty of the music and gave up his plan. Yoshitoshi’s painting was so well received, the subject was incorporated into a play with Ichikawa Danjuro IX playing Fujiwara no Yasumasa several months after the publication of the print. Published 1883 by Akiyama Buemon. Considered by cogniscenti to be Yoshitoshi’s finest design. Superb imp…

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