Fuwa Bansaku
£15.00
Artist: Kuniyoshi, Utagawa (1797-1861)
Title: Fuwa Bansaku
Series: Abridged Stories of our Country’s Swordsmanship
Japanese Series: Hondo kendo ryaku den
Publisher: Kadzusa-ya Iwazo
Date: 1845-46
The print depicts Fuwa Bansaku having just struck off the head of a stone statue of a lion with his bare fist. Kuniyoshi’s dramatic prints of warriors established a new genre of warrior prints, known as musha-e.
