Fashionable Men with Impressive Bare Bodies, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1859, 12th lunar month, Minneapoli
Fashionable Men with Impressive Bare Bodies, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1859, 12th lunar month, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Artunattached diptych; two heavily tattooed, seminude male figures; figure at L is scratching PL shoulder with PR hand, looking back; figure has small purse crossing his upper body; kerchief tied in bow over head; figure at R has blue spotted kerchief on hair, looking outward Text by Kanagaki Robun. Right: actor Kawarazaki Gonjūrō I as Araiso no Gon荒磯の権. Left: actor Nakamura Fukusuke I as Kanjaku no Fuku翫雀の福. Artist signature is above the Yoshikiri seal and almost invisable.Size: 14 ¼ × 9 5/8 in. (36.2 × 24.45 cm) (image, sheet, each sheet; vertical ōban diptych)Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paperhttps://collections.artsmia.org/art/127736/ -- source link
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