Title : Book Thrower - Takayama Masayuki

Artist : Mizuno Toshikata

Date : 1890.

Details : Mizuno Toshikata: Book Thrower - Takayama Masayuki - Artelino

Source : artelino - Japanese Prints
Browse all 24745 prints...

Description : "Kyodo Risshi no Motoi" (Heroes and heroines who have been regarded as standards of moral leadership and success). Takayama Masayuki was reading a history book about Ashikaga Takauji who had defeated the Imperial court to establish the Ashikaga Shogunate. He thought Ashikaga was a traitor of the Imperial system and threw the book to show his anger.

Download Image