Night Attack of the Loyal Retainers

A New Selection of Eastern Brocade Pictures

Information

Title Night Attack of the Loyal Retainers Gishi youchi no zu 義士夜討之圖
Series title A New Selection of Eastern Brocade Pictures 新選東錦繪
Artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839–1892)
Date 14/12/1885
Publisher Tsujiokaya Tsunajima Kamekichi (Kinkodō/Tōsendō) 辻岡屋綱島亀吉 (錦亀堂/島鮮堂)
Woodcarver Watanabe Yatarō 渡辺弥太郎
City Tokyo
Signature Yoshitoshi 芳年
Artist seal Taiso 大蘇
Blockcutter’s (and/or) printer’s) seal(s) hori Yata 彫弥太
Inscription

(in left margin)

御届明治十八年十二月十四日 otodoke Meiji jūhachi nen jūni gatsu jūyon nichi Submitted in Meiji year 18, month 12, day 14

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

Technique & material Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper
Format ōban diptych
Object number SH2018-DM-123
Credit Line Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Provenance Gifted to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma