Artist: Inoue Yasuji
Title: Japanese Robinson Crusoe
Date: 1879.
Details & Prices: Inoue Yasuji: Japanese Robinson Crusoe - Artelino
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Description:
"Kyodo Risshi no Motoi" (Heroes and heroines who have been regarded as standards of moral leadership and success). Tanaka Tsurukichi worked for a trading company in Yokohama and emigrated to the USA. He came back to Japan and tried to establish a salt-processing company. His deed was popularized in a story titled as "Japanese Robinson Crusoe".
