Twenty-Four Achievements in the Empire
Title | Kusunoki Tatewaki Masatsura Kusunoki Tatewaki Masatsura 俊楠常刀正行 |
Series title | Twenty-Four Achievements in the Empire 皇國二十四功 |
Artist | Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839–1892) |
Date | 3/1893 (posthumous edition) |
Publisher | Daikokuya Matsuki Heikichi (Shōjudō) 大黒屋松木平吉 (松寿堂) |
Woodcarver | Negishi Naoyama 根岸直山 |
City | Tokyo |
Signature | Yoshitoshi 芳年 |
Artist seal | Yoshitoshi 芳年 |
Technique & material | Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper |
Format | ōban |
Object number | SH2018-DM-125 |
Credit Line | Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma |
Provenance | Gifted to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma |
Posthumous edition issued by Daikokuya (Matsuki) Heikichi. The original series appeared first in 1881, and was finished in 1887, by publisher Tsuda Genshichi. In the early edition by Genshichi the title cartouche is red, the signature is framed, and the background has various colours.