Of Brigands and Bravery: Kuniyoshi's Heroes of the Suikoden Architectural Buildings or we may recall the

or we may recall the three caskets among which the suitors had to choose in The Merchant of Venice

and was accompanied by a major international symposium on Ukiyo-e art

This English-language

such as the pre-production Fairlane Birds

illustrated catalogue of all his editioned prints from 1977 to 2009

Of Brigands and Bravery: Kuniyoshi's Heroes of the Suikoden Architectural Buildings or we may recall theOf brigands and bravery: Kuniyoshi's heroes of the Suikoden is the first monograph in English on the stunning series of 74 prints illustrating figures from the Suikoden by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 1861), one of the outstanding Japanese woodblock print masters of the 19th century. The Suikoden (commonly known in English as The water margin) is the Japanese adaptation of the 14th century Chinese vernacular novel, the Shuihu zhuan, which recounts the