Lot Essay
Another print by this artist whose work is rarely seen, depicting Shoki driving away the Thunder God, is illustrated in Jacob Pins, The Japanese pillar print hashira-e, London, 1982, p. 338, no. 964. For another impression of this print, see David Waterhouse, Ukiyo-e shuka, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Supplimentary volume II, Tokyo, 1982, no. 631, p. 166