‘Soga no Hakoōmaru’ 曽我 の 箱王丸– From the series “Kōkoku nijūshi-kō” 皇国二十四功 (Twenty-four Accomplishments in Imperial Japan)

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‘Soga no Hakoōmaru’ 曽我 の 箱王丸– From the series “Kōkoku nijūshi-kō” 皇国二十四功 (Twenty-four Accomplishments in Imperial Japan) – Japan – 1881 (Meiji 14), May 31

The spirit of the tengu is helping him avenge his father’s death/

memo
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡 芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi 大蘇 芳年 1839 – 1892) was a Japanese artist.
He is widely recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting.
He is also regarded as one of the form’s greatest innovators.

memo(箱王丸 Hakooumaru)
Hakoomaru is the main character of Soga Monogatari.Soga Monogatari (曽我物語) is a Japanese monogatari (or gunkimono), the epic tale of two brothers. It was dramatized based on the incident ‘Revenge of Soga Brothers’. The story is often known as The (illustrated) Tale of the Soga Brothers or The revenge of the Soga brothers. It is sometimes written as Soga Monogatari Zue (The Tale of the Soga brothers in pictures). It is regarded by some as the last of the Gunki monogatari or great “war tales”.The brothers are Soga Jūrō and Soga Gorō. Jūrō being the older of the two. When the boys were younger they were known as Ichimanmaru and Hakoomaru. In Japanese the Soga brothers are described as Soga kyodai. Their names are also written as Soga no Gorō and Soga no Jūrō. The name Soga is the name of their stepfather, which became their surname after their mother remarried. The name of their biological father was Kawazu-Saburō.

memo
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡 芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi 大蘇 芳年 1839 – 1892) was a Japanese artist.
He is widely recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting.
He is also regarded as one of the form’s greatest innovators.

In addition, Bob studied not only Ukiyo-e but also Kikuchi Yosai’s style of painting and Western painting. He also studied historical paintings, bijin-ga, genre paintings, and classical paintings.
Many of Bob’s works are famous, including his muzan-e(無惨画).

Famous disciples include Toshikata Mizuno(水野年方), Toshihide Migita(右田年英), and Toshitsune Inano(稲野年恒).
There are Toshinobu Yamazaki(山崎年信) and others.