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Collections

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Kintarō Seizes the Carp1885

Not on view
Vertical Japanese woodblock print of a muscular man wrestling a giant carp in rushing white water, with a woman watching from a rocky ledge above

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Kintarō Seizes the Carp, 1885, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Herbert R. Cole Collection, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Japan, 1839-1892
Title
Kintarō Seizes the Carp
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1885
Medium
Diptych; color woodblock print
Dimensions
Image (Overall): 28 3/8 × 9 11/16 in. (72.07 × 24.61 cm) Sheet (Overall): 29 9/16 × 9 11/16 in. (75.09 × 24.61 cm)
Credit Line
Herbert R. Cole Collection
Accession Number
M.84.31.434a-b
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Singer, Robert T., and Kawai Masatomo, editors. The Life of Animals in Japanese Art. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2019.