Ono no Tôfu Watching the Frog (Ono no Tôfu kaeru o miru zu), from an untitled series known as Sketches by Yoshitoshi (Yoshitoshi ryakuga)

Requires Photography

芳年略画　「小野道風見蛙図」

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)

Japanese

Meiji era

early 1880s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal chûban;18.3 × 24.8 cm (7 3/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Source unidentified

Accession Number2011.884.15

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #42.33 (no photo)

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.22584 (intact sheet), 2011.884.6 (bottom only), 2011.884.15 (top only)

Album: 2011.884.1-20

Signed Yoshitoshi giga
芳年戯画