Calligraphy Collection (#9)

Kino Stabbing Her Husband with a Fruit Knife, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Kino Stabbing Her Husband with a Fruit Knife, 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 471

The Celebrated Dealer Nishimura Exposing an Art Forger, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Celebrated Dealer Nishimura Exposing an Art Forger, 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 466

A Kamezaki Brewer's Celebration of His Good Fortune, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
A Kamezaki Brewer's Celebration of His Good Fortune, 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 452

Miki Toyokichi Educating Himself and Fellow Prisoners, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Miki Toyokichi Educating Himself and Fellow Prisoners, 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 449

Triplets Born to a Farmer and His Wife, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Triplets Born to a Farmer and His Wife, 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 447

Miyamoto Hanako Chastening a Drunkard, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Miyamoto Hanako Chastening a Drunkard, 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 425

Child Calms a Horse by Covering His Head with Her Jacket, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Child Calms a Horse by Covering His Head with Her Jacket, 1875. Series: The Postal News no. 472

Disappointed Bride: Kono Flees Upon Discovering That the Ugly Bridegroom Is Not Whom... 1879
Disappointed Bride: Kono Flees Upon Discovering That the Ugly Bridegroom Is Not Whom She Promised to Marry, 1879. Series: The Kanayomi Newspaper, no. 891

Dissolute Drinker: A Couple by a Window, 1879. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Dissolute Drinker: A Couple by a Window, 1879. Series: The Kanayomi Newspaper, no. 890

A Horrible Suicide: A Woman Slays Her Child then Kills Herself, 1879. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
A Horrible Suicide: A Woman Slays Her Child then Kills Herself, 1879. Series: The Kanayomi Newspaper, No. 808

Yorimasa Awaiting the Nue, 1882. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Yorimasa Awaiting the Nue, 1882. Series: Sketches by Yoshitoshi

Shoki Creeping Up on a Sleeping Demon, 1882. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Shoki Creeping Up on a Sleeping Demon, 1882. Series: Sketches by Yoshitoshi

Yoshida Chuzaemon Fujiwara Kenryo, 1868. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Yoshida Chuzaemon Fujiwara Kenryo, 1868. Series: Portraits of True Loyalty and Righteous Hearts

Geki Magohachi in Smoke and Rifle Fire, 1868. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Geki Magohachi in Smoke and Rifle Fire, 1868. Series: One Hundred Warriors in Battle Selected by Yoshitoshi

Masaki Taizen Tokiyoshi, 1868. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Masaki Taizen Tokiyoshi, 1868. Series: One Hundred Warriors in Battle Selected by Yoshitoshi

Shigeno Yozaemon and a Bursting Shell, 1869. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Shigeno Yozaemon and a Bursting Shell, 1869. Series: One Hundred Warriors in Battle Selected by Yoshitoshi

Solomon Enthroned as the King of the Three Worlds... c1780 (binding- 19th century). Creator: Unknown
Solomon Enthroned as the King of the Three Worlds. Album of Paintings and Calligraphy, c1780 (binding- 19th century). Calligraphic panels. By Hadrat-i-Amit al-Mu'minin Ali. 1781

Oya Taro Mitsukune Watching Skeletons, 1865. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Oya Taro Mitsukune Watching Skeletons, 1865. Series: One Hundred Ghost Tales from China and Japan

Shutendoji Surrounded by Women, 1865. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Shutendoji Surrounded by Women, 1865. Series: One Hundred Ghost Tales from China and Japan

Tobosaku, Miura Daisuke Yoshiaki, and the Son of Urashima Taro Drinking Wine, 1873. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Tobosaku, Miura Daisuke Yoshiaki, and the Son of Urashima Taro Drinking Wine, 1873. TobosakuDongfang Shuo), Miura Yoshiaki and Urashima Taro, all three lived long

Ichikawa Danjuro IX as Akamatsu Manyu, 1879. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Ichikawa Danjuro IX as Akamatsu Manyu, 1879. Series: News from the Kabuki Theater

Nakumura Shukaku in Ichiwa Ichigon, 1879. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Nakumura Shukaku in Ichiwa Ichigon, 1879. Series: News from the Kabuki Theater

Lady Kido Suikoin, 1887. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Lady Kido Suikoin, 1887. Series: Lives of Modern People

The Old Warrior Tomobayashi Rokuro Mitsuhira, 1888. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Old Warrior Tomobayashi Rokuro Mitsuhira, 1888. Series: Lives of Modern People

Raga Gandhara, 1650-75. Creator: Unknown
Raga Gandhara, 1650-75. A gaunt ascetic with protruding ribs sits on a tiger skin as a disciple carrying a pouch approaches

Mounted Plaque with Shi'ite Invocation, 17th-18th century. Creator: Unknown
Mounted Plaque with Shi'ite Invocation, 17th-18th century

Radha and Krishna, Illustration to Poems by Shribhatta, c1800. Creator: Unknown
Radha and Krishna, Illustration to Poems by Shribhatta, c1800

Female Ascetic (recto), c1600 (recto) Creator: Unknown
Female Ascetic (recto), Folio from an Album (image 3 of 4), c1600 (recto)

Psalter, c.1240. Creator: Workshop of William de Braile
Psalter, c.1240

The Rebel Insurrection in the Kagoshima Disturbance, 1877. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Rebel Insurrection in the Kagoshima Disturbance, 1877. From Annals of the Meiji Period

Compiled Album from Four Series: A Mirror of Famous Generals of Japan... between 1876 and 1882
Compiled Album from Four Series: A Mirror of Famous Generals of Japan; Comic Pictures of Famous Places in Civilizing Tokyo; Twenty-four Accomplishments in Imperial Japan; Twenty-four Hours in

Compiled Album from Four Series: A Mirror of Famous Generals of Japan... between 1876 and 1882
Compiled Album from Four Series: A Mirror of Famous Generals of Japan; Comic Pictures of Famous Places in Civilizing Tokyo; Twenty-four Accomplishments in Imperial Japan; Twenty-four Hours in

Guards Subdue the Prisoner Yoshizo after His Attempted Jailbreak, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Guards Subdue the Prisoner Yoshizo after His Attempted Jailbreak, 1875. From The Postal News, no. 525

Heads of Two Foxes Decapitated for Too Much Merrymaking, c1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Heads of Two Foxes Decapitated for Too Much Merrymaking, c1875. From The Postal News, no. 628

The Alchemy, 1606. Creator: Paulus de Kempenaer
The Alchemy, 1606

Maharaja Savant Singh's Tears Irrigate the Garden of His Poetry, between c1750 and c1775. Creator: Unknown
Maharaja Savant Singh's Tears Irrigate the Garden of His Poetry, between c1750 and c1775

Danjo Matsunaga Hisahide before His Suicide, 1883. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Danjo Matsunaga Hisahide before His Suicide, 1883. Series: Yoshitoshi's Warriors Trembling with Courage

Wada Yoshimori's Feast, between circa 1845 and circa 1846. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Wada Yoshimori's Feast, between circa 1845 and circa 1846. From The Soga Brothers Revenge Pictorialized

Ono no Komachi, between circa 1845 and circa 1849. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Ono no Komachi, between circa 1845 and circa 1849. From number 9

Minamoto no Shigeyuki, between circa 1845 and circa 1849. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Minamoto no Shigeyuki, between circa 1845 and circa 1849. From number 48

Kameyama: Woman Dreaming of Omatsu, Gennojô, and Sodesuke, Mid-1840s. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Kameyama: Woman Dreaming of Omatsu, Gennojo, and Sodesuke, Mid-1840s. From Fifty-three pairings along the Tokaido Road. Series:

Musashibo Benkei Battling with Young Ushiwaka on Gojo Bridge, 1878. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Musashibo Benkei Battling with Young Ushiwaka on Gojo Bridge, 1878. From A Mirror of Great Warriors of Japan

The Naval Battle of Dannoura in the Reign of Antoku, Eightieth Emperor, 1880. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Naval Battle of Dannoura in the Reign of Antoku, Eightieth Emperor, 1880. From A Simple Illustrated History of Japan

Compiled Album from Four Series: A Mirror of Famous Generals of Japan... between 1876 and 1882
Compiled Album from Four Series: A Mirror of Famous Generals of Japan; Comic Pictures of Famous Places in Civilizing Tokyo; Twenty-four Accomplishments in Imperial Japan; Twenty-four Hours in

The Wicked Thoughts of the Priest Raigo of Miidera Transform Him into a Rat, 1891. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Wicked Thoughts of the Priest Raigo of Miidera Transform Him into a Rat, 1891. From New Forms of the Thirty-six Ghosts

Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing the Flute by Moonlight on an Open Moor, 1888. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing the Flute by Moonlight on an Open Moor, 1888. From One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

Namekata Monya Throwing an Assailant to the Ground, 1866. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Namekata Monya Throwing an Assailant to the Ground, 1866. From Biographies of fine modern men

Ichikawa Danjuro IX as Musashibo Benkei in Kanjincho, 1887. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Ichikawa Danjuro IX as Musashibo Benkei in Kanjincho, 1887. From Lives of Modern People

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