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Fuwa Bansaku

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.

 

SKU: Japanese Prints 58 Category: