YOSHITOSHI (1839-92), oban tate-e, a triptych, each sheet approx. 37.2 x 25cm., Tokyo meisho Takanawa, Jokisha tetsudo no zenzu 'A famous place of Tokyo, Takanawa, Picture of the railroad steam engine', signed Oju Yoshitoshi hitsu, published by Yamashiroya Jimbei, good impression and colour, tiny holes

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YOSHITOSHI (1839-92), oban tate-e, a triptych, each sheet approx. 37.2 x 25cm., Tokyo meisho Takanawa, Jokisha tetsudo no zenzu 'A famous place of Tokyo, Takanawa, Picture of the railroad steam engine', signed Oju Yoshitoshi hitsu, published by Yamashiroya Jimbei, good impression and colour, tiny holes

拍品專文

The first railroad in Japan, whose construction the Japanese had to rely on British technicians, was opened between Yokohama and Tokyo in 1872. This triptych bears a censor seal of 1871. Kuniteru has made a triptych also of the same subject in 1870 which is thought to be based on a British model illustrated in a Western book.