YOSHITOSHI. Fujikawa. High-ranking samurai on horseback. Colored woodcut. 335x230 mm. Sign: Yoshitoshi hitsu. Publisher: Ebiya Rinnosuke. Censored by Aratame. Excellent fresh color impression with nice bokashi (fog), blind embossing (White Cloak), backed, margins partly trimmed, lower right corner soiled. Fujikawa in a gorge in the evening mist; a high ranking Samurai on horseback gives the signal to descend to the station. Fujikawa, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Fan [of the Tôkaidô Road] (Suehiro gojûsan tsugi); series created on the occasion of the invitation of the shogun Tokugawa Iemochi in 1865 to the imperial court. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1839 - 1892, has widely been recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting.

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