Japanese Print "Book Thrower - Takayama Masayuki" by Mizuno Toshikata
Artist:Mizuno Toshikata
Title:Book Thrower - Takayama Masayuki
Date:1890.
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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.
