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Collections

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Murai Chōan Killing His Younger Brother at the Crossroads1886, February

Not on view
Japanese woodblock print, two joined panels showing three figures in a nighttime sword confrontation amid storm clouds and lightning

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Murai Chōan Killing His Younger Brother at the Crossroads, 1886, February, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Herbert R. Cole Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title
Murai Chōan Killing His Younger Brother at the Crossroads
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1886, February
Period
Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Diptych; color woodblock prints
Dimensions
Overall: 14 5/16 x 18 15/16 in. (36.3 x 48.1 cm); Paper: 14 9.16 x 19 3/8 in. (37.1 x 49.3 cm)
Credit Line
Herbert R. Cole Collection
Accession Number
M.84.31.109a-b
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.