Mizuki Tatsunosuke

One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

Information

Title Mizuki Tatsunosuke Mizuki Tatsunosuke 水木辰の助
Series title One Hundred Aspects of the Moon つき百姿
Artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839–1892)
Date 6/1891
Publisher Akiyama Buemon (Kokkeidō) 秋山武右衛門 (滑稽堂)
Woodcarver Negishi Naoyama 根岸直山
City Edo
Signature Yoshitoshi 芳年
Artist seal Taiso 大蘇
Publisher’s seal(s) kokkeidō こっけい堂
Blockcutter’s (and/or) printer’s) seal(s) Naoyama tō 直山刀
Inscription

(in title cartouche)

桜さくすみたの川にこくふねもくれて関屋に月をこそ見れ 水木辰の助

Sakura saku / Sumida no kawa ni / koku fune mo / kurete Sekiya ni / tsuki o koso mire

Cherry trees blossom / by the Sumida river / boats fade from view at Sekiya / as I view the moon / in the gathering dusk —Mizuki Tatsunosuke

(in left margin)

明治廿四年六月 日印刷 Meiji nijūyon nen roku gatsu [blank] nichi insatsu Printed in Meiji year 24 month 6 day [blank]

仝 年仝月 日出版 dōjō nen dōjō gatsu [blank] nichi shuppan Published in same year same month [blank] day

日本橋區室町三丁目九番地 Nihonbashi-ku Muromachi-chō 3-chōme 9-banchi (Publisher’s address)

印刷兼発行者 秋山武右衛門 insatsu-ken-hakkōsha Akiyama Buemon printer-and-publisher Akiyama Buemon

Technique & material Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper
Format ōban
Object number SH2018-DM-084
Credit Line Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Provenance Gifted to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma