Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title: The Village of the Shi Clan on a Moonlit Night - # 6
Date: 1885.
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Description:
"Tsuki Hyakushi; Shikason Ttsukiyo" (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon; The Village of the Shi Clan on a Moonlit Night) no.6. Shi Jin, one of the 108 bandit heroes in the Chinese novel, "Shui Hu Zhuan" (Jp. Suikoden), relaxes in his home village. He had nine dragons tattooed, therefore he was known as "Kumonryu" (Nine Dragons).
