two sheets configured vertically; man hanging on top green, grey and yellow dragon at the top point of a pitched roof on a red building with black trim and black roof tiles; man at top wears blue blouse and purple pants, and has sword extended downward, held in his PR hand; man on flatter portion of roof in foreground holding a short staff in his teeth, with legs wide apart, retying a white belt over a kimono with yellow dragon and multicolored clouds on a green ground with yellow tassels on trim; grey birds flying to right of roof between two men
Details
Title
Two Brave Men Battling on the Roof of Hōryūkaku
Artist Life
1839 - 1892
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.106.162a,b
Catalogue Raisonne
Keyes, Courage and Silence (1982), no. 477; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), fig. 211, p. 291.
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two sheets configured vertically; man hanging on top green, grey and yellow dragon at the top point of a pitched roof on a red building with black trim and black roof tiles; man at top wears blue blouse and purple pants, and has sword extended downward, held in his PR hand; man on flatter portion of roof in foreground holding a short staff in his teeth, with legs wide apart, retying a white belt over a kimono with yellow dragon and multicolored clouds on a green ground with yellow tassels on trim; grey birds flying to right of roof between two men