Nomi no Sukune and Taima no Kehaya, from the series Yoshitoshi musha burui (Yoshitoshi's Courageous Warriors)

Nomi no Sukune and Taima no Kehaya, from the series Yoshitoshi musha burui (Yoshitoshi's Courageous Warriors)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)

publisher: Maruya Tetsujirō (Japanese, active ca. 1849-1897)

1877

Japan: Meiji period (1868-1912)

color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e

image: 13 3/8 in x 8 7/8 in; sheet: 14 1/8 in x 9 1/2 in

publisher's mark: 日本橋通三丁目十二番地 // 出版人小林鉄次郎, printed in black ink, left margin, bottom Transliteration (Translation): Nihonbashi-dōri san-chōme jūni-banchi // shuppanjin Kobayashi Tetsujirō (publisher Kobayashi Tetsujirō [at address:] Nihonbashi-dōri 3-chōme 12-banchi) Language: Japanese Description: Edo-Tokyo publisher, dates unknown.

artist's seal: 根津宮永丁丗五番地 // 画工月岡米次郎, printed in black ink, left margin, bottom Transliteration (Translation): Nezu Miyanaga-chō sanjūgo banchi // gakō Tsukioka Yonejirō (artist Tsukioka Yonejirō [at address:] Nezu Miyanaga-chō 35-banchi) Language: Japanese Description: Tsukioka Yonejirō is another name for the artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.

date: 御届明治　年　月　日, printed in black ink, left margin, center Transliteration (Translation): otodoke Meiji nen gatsu nichi (registered Meiji [date not recorded]) Language: Japanese

carver's mark: 彫工宗岡, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche on reserve ground, bottom right Transliteration (Translation): chōkō Muneoka ([seal of the carver Muneoka Shinkichi 宗岡信吉]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo-Tokyo carver, born 1858.

signature: 大蘇芳年画, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche on reserve ground, lower right Transliteration (Translation): Taiso Yoshitoshi ga (picture [by] Taiso Yoshitoshi) Language: Japanese

inscription: 当麻蹴速, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche on red ground, upper left Transliteration: Taima no Kehaya Language: Japanese

inscription: 野見宿称, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche on red ground, center right Transliteration: Nomi no Sukune Language: Japanese

series title: 芳年武者无類, printed in black ink within rectangular decorative cartouche, upper right Transliteration (Translation): Yoshitoshi musha burui (Yoshitoshi's Courageous Warriors) Language: Japanese

The Carol and Seymour Haber Collection

2002.37.2

public domain

Japanese woodblock prints

Meiji

relief printing

relief prints

woodcuts