High Priest Yūten

Mirror of Great Accomplishments

Information

Title High Priest Yūten Yūten daisōjō 祐天大僧正
Series title Mirror of Great Accomplishments 雅立功名鑑
Artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839–1892)
Date 1877?
Publisher Kodama Matashichi 児玉又七
City Tokyo
Signature Yoshitoshi芳年
Artist seal Taiso 大蘇
Inscription

(in cartouche)

祐天和尚の陸奥岩城郡岩城村百姓妻長右エ門といふ者の一子なり幼名を三之助と称す十一才の時より舘林團通和尚り従弟となれとも生ひつ愚昧にして一経も覚得ず自ら悔て下奥の国成田山不動明王へ祈誓をかしケ[?]夢中に利剱を呑て悪血を吐後博学となり昔/\世上の怨灵を成佛させ遂に三縁山増上寺三十六世見誉祐天大僧正と称す

(in left margin)

Meiji [blank] nen [blank] gatsu [blank] hi otodoke 明治 年 月 日

Submitted Meiji year [blank], month [blank], day [blank]

gakō Nezu Miyanaga-chō 315 banchi Tsukioka Yonejirō 画工 根津宮永丁三十五番チ 月岡米次郎

Illustrator: (Yoshitoshi’s address) – Tsukioka Yonejirō*

*Yonejirō is Yoshitoshi’s birth name

Technique & material Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper
Format chūban
Object number SH2018-DM-100
Credit Line Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Provenance Gifted to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma