Lot Essay
For other impressions of this famous deisgn see The Riccar Museum, Kuniyoshi Exhibition Catalogue, (Tokyo, 1978), no.55, Robert Schaap, Heroes and Ghosts, Society of Japanese Arts, (Amsterdam, 1998), p.51, and B. W. Robinson, Kuniyoshi, The Warrior Prints, (Oxford, 1982), no. S.1d.1