Riding in a Wash Tub

Artist Tsukioka (Taiso) Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839 - 1892)

Date1886

Place of ManufactureAsia

Mediumwoodcut

DimensionsOverall (sheet/image; wi=two sections mounted together): 34.5 x 45 cm

ClassificationsFINE ART

Credit LinePurchased with funds from Judith Patt

Object number2011.020.003 a,b

DescriptionDiptych; An elderly samurai, Ohkubo Hikozaemon a high ranking advisor to the shogun, rides in a tub carried by two bearers, and watched by many passerbys as he enters the Edo castle. (He was protesting the order that the samurais could not come to the castle in a palanquins. When a guard questioned him, he said, "Wash tub is not a palanquin". The order was later abolished.)

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