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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Mongaku's Penitence

1885

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TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)
Mongaku Shonen beneath the waterfall
1885
Vertical diptych
$ 6,500
Signed: Yoshitoshi
Publisher: Matsui Eikichi (not shown in this impression)

Yoshitoshi has depicted Mongaku, after 21 days of penance beneath an icy waterfall, at the moment of his collapse, when he is rescued by the Fudô-Myô-ô’s child attendants, Seitaka and Kongara.
 

Subj Ill: Keyes, Roger. Courage and Silence, 1982, no. 469; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi, 2014, p. 291, among others
Ing, Eric van den, and Schaap, Robert, Beauty & Violence Japanese prints by Yoshitoshi 1839 – 1892 (Havilland Press, 1992), pl. 47, pp. 68
Segi, Shinichi, Yoshitoshi The Splended Decadent (Kodansha International LTD), 1985, pl. 38, pp. 74

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