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Collections

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Suicide of Two Foreign Clerks1875, April

Not on view
Japanese woodblock print with bold colors showing two figures in violent struggle on a ship's deck, with smoke and scattered red drops; newspaper text block above in Japanese

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, The Suicide of Two Foreign Clerks, 1875, April, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Herbert R. Cole Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title
The Suicide of Two Foreign Clerks
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1875, April
Period
Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Color woodblock print
Dimensions
Image: 13 5/8 × 9 3/16 in. (34.61 × 23.34 cm) Sheet: 13 5/8 × 9 3/16 in. (34.61 × 23.34 cm)
Credit Line
Herbert R. Cole Collection
Accession Number
M.84.31.121
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Keyes, Roger and George Kuwayama. The Bizarre Imagery of Yoshitoshi: The Herbert R. Cole Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980.