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YOSHITOSHI: kakemono-e (71.8 x 24.4 cm. ea. approx.); an album of fifteen upright diptychs, signed Oju Yoshitoshi ga or Yoshitoshi - moderately good and good impressions and color, some lacquer and mica highlights, some sheets slightly toned or soiled a. Endo Morita doing his penance under the Nachi waterfall being rescued by the acolytes of Fudo Myo-o b. Horyukaku ryoyu dozuru "Two heroes fighting atop Horyukaku Tower", the duel between Inuzuka Shino and Inukai Gempachi, from the novel "The Story of Eight Dogs of the Satomi Clan" by Bakin c. Ichinotani kassen "Battle at Ichinotani" d. Kintaro koi uotori "Kintaro catching the carp" e. Oshu adachigahara hitosuya no zu "The lonely house on Adachi Moor in northern Japan", the slain pregnant woman f. Inaka Genji , a scene from Inaka Genji in the rain g. Shoshukubai yushima kakegaku , the greengrocer's daughter Oshichi Yaoya ascending a ladder after setting fire to the Kanda district in Edo h. Shunkan sozu kikaigashima ni oite tamatama yasuyori no shamen sembo kito no zu "Shunkan watching enviously from Kikai island as Yasuyori is unexpectedly pardoned and returns to the capital", Shunkan pleading and beseeching as Taira no Kiyomori's ship in the distance i. Hyoshita Rinchu , one of the heroes of the Suikoden slaying a foe in a snowy landscape j. Taira no Koremochi Togakushiyama kijo taiji no zu "Taira no Koremochi about to kill the female demon at Mt. Togakushi" k. Rochishin ransui godaizan kongojin o uchikowasu no zu "Lu Chi Shen in a drunken rage smashing the guardian figure at Five-Crested Mountain Temple" l. Chang Shun, the White Stripe in the Waves, wrestling Li K'uei, Black Whirlwind, in the Ching Yang River m. Watanabe no Tsuna confronting Ibaraki Shozo, the demon of the Rashomon gate n. Seigen daraku no zu "The depravity of the abbot Seigen", the spirit of Sakurahime possessing the priest o. The robber Hakamadare Yasusuke and Kidomaru fighting with magic