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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Shirafuji Genta Watching Kappa Wrestle1865, 2nd month

Not on view
Japanese woodblock print of a muscular man in a blue floral kimono wrestling two small spotted creatures on a green platform, with a moonlit shoreline and dark tree branches behind him

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Shirafuji Genta Watching Kappa Wrestle, 1865, 2nd month, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Herbert R. Cole Collection, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Japan, 1839-1892
Title
Shirafuji Genta Watching Kappa Wrestle
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1865, 2nd month
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
Color woodblock print
Dimensions
Image: 13 3/4 × 9 in. (34.93 × 22.86 cm) Sheet: 14 13/16 × 10 1/8 in. (37.62 × 25.72 cm)
Credit Line
Herbert R. Cole Collection
Accession Number
M.84.31.59
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.

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