After Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-92), Monk Ikkyu with Skull

Meiji period (1868-1912) or Taisho period (1912-1926), ink and colors on silk, hanging scroll, a finely painted image of the Monk Ikkyu as presented in Yoshitoshi's original woodblock print titled The Story of the Monk Ikkyu and Courtesan Jigoku-dayu from the 1886 series "New Selection of Eastern Brocade Pictures," inscribed and signed to lower left corner together with two red artist seals, ivory or bone rollers, comes together with a tomobako wooden storage box.


DOA 74 1/2 x 19 1/4 in., Image size 46 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.

Private Collection, Florida

Exhibited at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, "Buddhist Visions: Visual Culture and the Middle Way," January 18-April 13, 2008.


Overall good estate condition; some light scattered foxing.