Galerie Christian Collin

(1839 - 1892)

No. 628: The heads of two foxes in Nagasaki Prefecture who were decapitated for overdoing their merrymaking in the fields

Woodblock print

1875

Fine impression on Japan paper, signed Taiso Yoshitoshi, from the series The Post Dispatch Newspaper (Yûbin hôchi shinbun), published by Ebisuya Shôshichi. Censor's seal boar 6.

The Yūbin hōchi shinbun was a newspaper founded in 1873. Yoshitoshi was hired in 1875 to illustrate a wide variety of subjects like political, crime, public interest and ghost stories...

Sheet: ôban (369 x 247 mm)

Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.

Condition: in generally good condition.