Akashi Gidayū, from the series Tsuki hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon)

Akashi Gidayū, from the series Tsuki hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839-1892)

publisher: Akiyama Bu'emon (Japanese, active Tokyo ca. 1882-1920s)

1890, April 18th

Japan: Meiji period (1868-1912)

color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e

Stevenson 1992, no. 83

image: 13 1/16 in x 8 13/16 in; sheet: 13 15/16 in x 9 3/8 in

title; inscription: 明石義太夫 // 弓取の数に // 入るさの身と// なれは // おしまさりけり// 夏夜月, printed in black ink within square cartouche on reserve ground, upper right Transliteration (Translation): Akashi Gidayū // Yumitori no kazu ni // irusa no mi to // nareba // oshimasarikeri // natsu no yo no tsuki (As a man of the bow, I have nothing to regret - the moon of the summer night [by] Akashi Gidayū) Language: Japanese Description: Poem by Akashi Gidayū. Translation by Maribeth Graybill.

carver's mark: 山本刀, printed in black ink within oval cartouche, lower left Transliteration (Translation): Yamamoto tō ([seal of the carver Yamamoto Shinji 山本信司]) Language: Japanese Description: Tokyo carver, dates unknown

publisher's mark: 日本バシ区室町三丁目九バンチ/ こつけい堂 [trimmed], printed in red ink; printed in red relief within oval cartouche, left margin Transliteration (Translation): Nihonbashi Muromachi-chō san-chōme kyū-banchi / Kokkeidō ([at address:] Nishonbashi-ku Muromachi 3-chōme 9-banchi [firm] Kokkeidō) Language: Japanese Description: Partially trimmed seal of the publisher Akiyama Buemon 秋山武右衛門; Edo-Tokyo publisher, firm Kokkeidō 滑稽堂 active ca. 1882-1920s.

date: 明治廿三年四月十八日印刷 [trimmed], printed in red ink, left margin, center Transliteration (Translation): Meiji nijūsan-nen shi-gatsu jūhachi-nichi (printed Meiji 23 [1890] April 18th) Language: Japanese

seal: 大蘇, printed in red relief within gourd-shaped cartouche, lower right Transliteration (Translation): Taiso ([seal of artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年]) Language: Japanese

signature: 芳年, printed in black ink, lower right Transliteration: Yoshitoshi Language: Japanese

series title: 月百姿, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche on pink ground, upper right Transliteration (Translation): Tsuki hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon) Language: Japanese

Museum Purchase: Funds provided by the Asian Art Council and the Margery Hoffman Smith Fund

83.44.61

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