A New Selection of Eastern Brocade Pictures
Titel | Ōkubo Hikozaemon Entering the Castle in a Tub Ōkubo Hikozaemon tarai no tōjō no zu 大久保彦左衛門盥登城之圖 |
Serientitel | A New Selection of Eastern Brocade Pictures 新選東錦繪 |
Künstler | Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839–1892) |
Datum | 22/3/1886 |
Herausgeber | Tsujiokaya Tsunajima Kamekichi (Kinkodō/Tōsendō) 辻岡屋綱島亀吉 (錦亀堂/島鮮堂) |
Holzschnitzer | Watanabe Yatarō 渡辺弥太郎 |
Ort | Tokyo |
Unterschrift | Yoshitoshi 芳年 |
Künstler Siegel | Taiso 大蘇 |
Blockschneider-/Druckersiegel(s) | hori Yata 彫弥太 |
Inschrift | (in left margin) 御届明治十九年三月二十二日 otodoke Meiji jūkyū nen san gatsu nijūni nichi submitted in Meiji year 19, month 3, day 22 浅草須賀町二バンチ Asakusa Sugachō 2-banchi (Yoshitoshi’s address) 画工月岡米次郎 gakō Tsukioka Yonejirō image created by: Tsukioka Yonejirō* 馬喰町二丁目十四番地 Bakurochō 2-chōme 14-banchi (publisher’s address) 出版人 綱島亀吉 shuppanjin Tsunajima Kamekichi publisher Tsunajima Kamekichi *Yonejirō was Yoshitoshi’s official name |
Technik & Material | Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper |
Format | ōban diptych |
Objektnummer | SH2018-DM-171 |
Credit line | Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma |
Herkunft | Gifted to Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma |
Ōkubo Hikozaemon, also known as Ōkubo Tadataka (1560–1639), was a samurai who served the Tokugawa clan. He protested a ban on entering the shogun’s castle ground in a palanquin by having his men carry him to the castle in a bathtub, much to the amusement of onlookers.