Yoshitoshi: The Twelfth-Century Shogun Minamoto Yoritomo Releasing a Thousand Cranes at the Beach at Yuigahama 18" x 20" Archival Poster

$29.00 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi came of age as an artist as Japan opened to the West after two hundred years of isolation. Navigating both cultural traditions and the upheavals of the modern world, he tackled a wide range of themes: the heroism of samurai warriors, poetic images of figures in nature, female beauty, historic accounts, ghost stories and the horrors of the battlefield. His vivid, dynamic imagery served as an inspiration for modern day manga and anime. This print exactly reproduces the size of the oban…