And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, June 5, 2022
Son Gokû Fights the Yellow Wind King Kôfûô, from the series The Journey to the West, A Popular Version by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1864)
and this is why Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, along with Yōshū Chikanobu, is considered one of the finest Japanese print artists of his era.
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