Tenjiku Tokubei riding a giant toad, 歌川 国芳 Post Card

Tenjiku Tokubei riding a giant toad, 歌川 国芳 Post Card
Tenjiku Tokubei is the main character of a kabuki play and evokes magic with his fingers. By Japanese woodblock print artist and painter Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Color woodblock print, c.1850

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese: 歌川国芳) (ca. 1797 – April 14, 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting and belonged to the Utagawa school.

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