Tsukioka YOSHITOSHI (1837-1889)
The moon through a crumbling window.
- Category
- Japanese | 20th Century
- Series
- One Hundred Aspects of the Moon.
- Publisher
- Akiyama Buemon
- Engraver
- Yamamoto
oban tate-e, 25.0 cm × 37.0 cm
Excellent impression with strong woodgrain. Excellent colour and very good condition.
'Haso no tsuki' from Yoshitoshi's masterpiece series 'One hundered Aspects of the Moon'. Bodhidharma (Daruma in Japanese), founder of Zen Buddhism, meditates in a cave for nine years after being refused entry to the Shaolin Monastary. Vines grow over the walls of the moonlit cave. He cut off his eyelids in anger, after falling asleep two years into the meditation, and tea plants grew where they fell. Signed Yoshitoshi, seal Yoshitoshi no in. Engraved by Yamamoto. Printed 1 June 1886.
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