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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
A Sudden Police Raid on Unlicensed Prostitutes1875, April

Not on view
Japanese woodblock print with a newspaper-style text panel above a dramatic interior scene of a woman on bedding and a black-clad man wielding a long pole

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, A Sudden Police Raid on Unlicensed Prostitutes, 1875, April, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Herbert R. Cole Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title
A Sudden Police Raid on Unlicensed Prostitutes
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1875, April
Period
Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Color woodblock print
Dimensions
Image: 13 11/16 × 9 1/4 in. (34.77 × 23.5 cm) Sheet: 13 11/16 × 9 1/4 in. (34.77 × 23.5 cm)
Credit Line
Herbert R. Cole Collection
Accession Number
M.84.31.174
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art