Original woodblock print – Utagawa Yoshitora (act. ca. 1836-1887) -“Tousdai daisennsou“東台大戦争 (Great battle of Todai temple)  – Japan – 1863 (meiji 23period tyape)

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Original woodblock print – Utagawa Yoshitora (act. ca. 1836-1887) -“Tousdai daisennsou“東台大戦争 (Great battle of Todai temple)  – Japan – 1863 (meiji 23period )

The people in Nanjing are drawn.At the end of the Edo period, many foreigners came to Japan.
Therefore, many were drawn in Ukiyo-e.There were many ukiyo-e artists who drawn foreigners, and Yoshitora was one of them.This ukiyo-e has a repair in the place where it is torn.

Utagawa Yoshitora is name ‘Nagashima mousai hitsu’”永島猛斎筆”in his signature.

(memo)
He joined Utagawa school master Kuniyoshi’s studio and become one of the master’s students.
he took on Utagawa as a surname, and also used the surname Ichi Mousai(一猛斎),Mousai(孟斎),NishikichoEuro(錦朝楼),as an art name, and also used his birth surname as an art name in his career.