Firemen Fight Sumo Wrestlers at the Shinmei Shrine (Shinmei sumō tōsō no zu) from the series New Selection of Eastern Brocade Pictures (Shinsen Azuma nishiki-e) 「神明相撲闘争之図」 『新撰東錦絵』

Object Details

• Artist

  Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839-1892)

• Publisher

  Tsunajima Kamekichi 綱島亀吉 (active ca. 1868-1900)

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Underdogs and Antiheroes: Japanese Prints from the Moskowitz Collection (March 19, 2022 - February 5, 2023)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  The Pearl and Seymour Moskowitz Collection

• Type

  Print

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• Date

  1880s

• Name

  Tsukioka, Yoshitoshi, Tsunajima, Kamekichi

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Diptych, Wars, Art, Japanese Art, Firefighter, Meiji era (1868 - 1912), The Pearl and Seymour Moskowitz Collection, Wrestler

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints