Utagawa's Lifetime Masterpiece, from the Japanese version of the Shuihu Zhuan, Utagawa Kunisada, 1863 (5th month

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Utagawa's Lifetime Masterpiece, from the Japanese version of the Shuihu Zhuan, Edo period (1615–1868), 1863 (5th month), Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 14 1/8 x 28 1/2 in. ( x cm), Prints, Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786–1865), The Chinese vernacular novel known as the Shuihu Zhuan (Suikoden in Japanese), relating the adventures of the 108 heroes of Liangshan, became enormously popular in nineteenth-century Japan, and many Japanese novels imitating the Shuihu Zhuan were dramatized as Kabuki plays

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