Yoshitoshi - Lady Tenshoin

Yoshitoshi Tsukioka

The first print, #1, from the series The Post Dispatch Newspaper (Yûbin hôchi shinbun). This is from the series "Personalities of Recent Times".

Tenshō-in (天璋院, February 5, 1836 – November 20, 1883), also known as Atsuko, was the official wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. Yoshitoshi shows her reading a book to a child. The child holds a happy looking cat.

Publisher: Yamato Shimbunsha

Date: 1875

Condition: Very good color and impression, full borders, not backed.

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