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Signed: Yoshitoshi, published by Hasegawa Tsunejirô, carver: Negishi Chôkuzan The Chinese adventure novel "Heroes of the Suikoden" (Suikoden) was translated (in ninety-one volumes) at the beginning of the nineteenth century by a friend of Hokusai, Takizawa Bakin, and by Hokusai himself. As Yoshitoshi illustrated in his print Lu (the leader of the Imperial guard, but later became a monk), enraged, begins to smash up the temple; it seems as if the statue is alive and fighting the warrior-monk. The dark colours which dominate the print are also encountered in the work of Yoshitoshi's teacher Kuniyoshi.
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