Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title: Nine Dragon Tattoo - Sketches by Yoshitoshi
Date: 1882.
Details & Prices: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: Nine Dragon Tattoo - Sketches by Yoshitoshi - Artelino
Source:
artelino - Japanese Prints
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Description:
"Yoshitoshi Ryakuga" (Sketches by Yoshitoshi). She Jin, one of the 108 bandit heroes in the Chinese novel, "Shui Hu Zhuan" (Suikoden in Japanese). He had nine dragons tattooed, therefore, he was known as "Kumonryu" (Nine Dragons).