Yamashiro Ogurusu no tsuki (The Moon of Ogurusu in Yamashiro), from the series Tsuki hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Yamashiro Ogurusu no tsuki (The Moon of Ogurusu in Yamashiro), from the series Tsuki hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon), 1886, February 1st, color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by the Asian Art Council and the Margery Hoffman Smith Fund, public domain, 83.44.80
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- Title
Yamashiro Ogurusu no tsuki (The Moon of Ogurusu in Yamashiro), from the series Tsuki hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon)
- Related Titles
original language: 山城小栗栖月
series (original language): 月百姿
series (translated): One Hundred Aspects of the Moon
series (transliterated): Tsuki hyakushi
translated: The Moon of Ogurusu in Yamashiro
transliterated: Yamashiro Ogurusu no tsuki
- Artist
- Related People
carver: Noguchi Enkatsu (Japanese, 1826-1893)
publisher: Akiyama Bu'emon (Japanese, active Tokyo ca. 1882-1920s)
- Date
1886, February 1st
- Period
Japan: Meiji period (1868-1912)
- Medium
color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e
- Catalogue Raisonné
Stevenson 1992, no. 19
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 13 in x 8 7/8 in; sheet: 14 in x 9 3/8 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
carver's mark: 圓活刀, printed in red ink within oval cartouche, bottom left Transliteration (Translation): Enkatsu tō ([seal of the carver Noguchi Enkatsu 野口円活]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo-Tokyo carver, 1826-1893.
publisher's mark; censor's mark: 日本バシ室町三丁目九バンチ // 板元秋山武右衛門 / 組合 / 証, printed in red ink; printed in red intaglio within square cartouche; printed in red relief within square cartouche, left margin, bottom Transliteration (Translation): Nihonbashi Muromachi san-chōme kyū-banchi // hanmoto Akiyama Buemon / kumiai / akashi (publisher Akiyama Buemon [at address:] Nishonbashi Muromachi 3-chōme 9-banchi; association certified) Language: Japanese Description: Edo-Tokyo publisher, firm Kokkeidō 滑稽堂 active ca. 1882-1920s.
artist's seal: 浅草須賀町二バンチ // 画工月岡米次郎, printed in red ink, left margin, bottom Transliteration (Translation): Asakusa Suga-chō ni-banchi // gakō Tsukioka Yonejirō (artist Tsukioka Yonejirō [at address:] Asakusa Suga-chō 2-banchi) Language: Japanese Description: Tsukioka Yonejirō is another name for the artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.
date: 御届明治十九年二月 一日, printed in red ink, left margin, center Transliteration (Translation): otodoke Meiji jūkyū-nen ni-gatsu tsuitachi (registered Meiji 19 [1886] February 1st) Language: Japanese
seal: 大蘇, printed in red relief within rectangular 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
title: 山城 // 小栗栖月, printed in black ink within square cartouche on reserve ground, upper right Transliteration (Translation): Yamashiro // Ogurusu no tsuki (The Moon of Ogurusu in Yamashiro) 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
- Collection Area
Asian Art; Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
Japanese Traditional Prints
- Object Type
relief print
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Funds provided by the Asian Art Council and the Margery Hoffman Smith Fund
- Accession Number
83.44.80
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
The endless wars that racked Japan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries bred lawlessness and banditry in the countryside. Armed peasants preyed on travelers, including defeated samurai.
In an unusual treatment of the subject, this print focuses on one such peasant, a man armed with no more than a sharpened stick of bamboo and a scythe, who lies in wait for an approaching warrior. In the next moment, he will kill Akechi Mitsuhide (1526–1582), the cultured general who had served on Oda Nobunaga's inner council—until he betrayed him. Nobunaga was avenged by one of his other commanders, Hideyoshi, at the Battle of Yamazaki, depicted in a nearby print. Mitsuhide survived the onslaught and fled, only to meet an ignominious end.
- Exhibitions
2013 Legendary Samurai Portland Art Museum
