Tokaido gojusan tsui

Description Tawara Toda (Fujiwara Hidesato) on the shore of Lake Biwa with his bow watches the Dragon Princess arise from the water. She is asking him to destroy the giant centipede of Seta. The upper part of the print is the title of the series in large formal characters reserved in a black rectangle; on the left is a decorative panel with the name of the post-station and a short text.

Provenance C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.

Inscriptions [Signature] Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga

Credit Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, 1991