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Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing His Flute in the Moonlight
Tsukioka YoshitoshiAbout 1883
- Attribution
- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Japanese, 1839-1892
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; ōban triptych
- Physical dimensions
- 73 × 37 cm (28 3/4 × 14 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Frederick W. Gookin Collection
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Fujiwara no Yasumasa’s windblown robes contrast sharply with the strong, fixed pose of the robber Hakamadare Yasusuke in this woodblock print. According to legend, Yasumasa, a renowned poet and flutist who lived during the Heian period (740–1185), so charmed the would-be thief with his music and confident bearing that the outlaw meekly followed him home.
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