Artist: Utagawa Toyohiro
Title: Two Korean men carrying banners.
Format: Chuban
Date: ca. 1795 
Size: 9 1/8'' x 7''
Condition: Very good color, impression, and condition. Tiny repaired worm hole upper left, slight rubbing and thinning on left.
 
(No. 2) from a set of eleven or twelve prints ? of an untitled series of a Korean tribute delegation to Edo.
The tiger and dragon are ancient symbols of yin and yang, forces that combine to make up the universe. Ancient Chinese Taoist philosophy explains the world in terms of two forces yin (from the ancient Chinese word for shady) and yang (from the word for bright).l