Eda Genzō Hirotsuna, from the series Honchō Suikoden gōyū happyakunin no hitori (Eight Hundred Heroes of the Japanese Water Margin)

Eda Genzō Hirotsuna, from the series Honchō Suikoden gōyū happyakunin no hitori (Eight Hundred Heroes of the Japanese Water Margin)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797-1861)

publisher: Kagaya Kichiemon (Japanese, active ca. 1815-1850)

1830/1832

Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)

color woodblock print on paper; ōban nishiki-e

image: 14 7/8 in x 10 1/4 in; sheet: 15 in x 10 5/16 in

inscription: , printed in black ink, upper left Language: Japanese Description: Commentary on depicted scene.

series title; title: 本朝水滸傳剛勇八百人一個 // 江田源蔵弘綱, printed in black ink within double rectangular cartouche on reserve ground, upper right Transliteration (Translation): Honchō Suikoden gōyū happyakunin no hitori // Eda no Genzō Hirotsuna (800 Heroes of the Japanese Water Margin, Eda Genzō Hirotsuna) Language: Japanese

publisher's mark: 吉 / 両国 // 加々や, printed in black ink within rectangular cartouche, lower middle Transliteration (Translation): Kichi / Ryōgoku // Kagaya ([seal of the publisher Kagaya Kichiemon 加賀屋吉右衛門]) Language: Japanese Description: Edo publisher, firm Seiseidō 青盛堂 active ca. 1815-50.

signature: 一勇斎國芳画, printed in black ink within gourd-shaped cartouche, lower right Transliteration (Translation): Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga (picture [by] Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi) Language: Japanese

Museum Purchase: Kathryn G. Rees Endowment Fund

2012.60.1

public domain

Edo

Japanese woodblock prints

musha-e

nishiki-e

paper

relief printing

relief prints

warriors

woodcuts