Washi Shinsuke holding a bamboo spear

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Colour print from woodblocks.
Ôban format.
Block-carver: Hori Ôta Tashichi.
Biographical text by Sanzantei Arindô (Sankanjin Kôrai).
Publisher: Iseki (Manyôdô). 12/1865.
Keyes 147-19

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From the series of 36 Biographies of modern men (Kinsei kyôgiden) published in 1865-6.

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Bequeathed by Dr Thomas Donald Kellaway, 2002
P.205-2002

Yoshitoshi
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