Stories of Modern Chivalrous Men
Title | Namekata Mon’ya Namekata Mon’ya 滑方紋弥 |
Series title | Stories of Modern Chivalrous Men 近世侠義傳 |
Artist | Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839–1892) |
Date | 2/1866 |
Publisher | Iseya Kisaburō (Man’yōdō) 伊勢屋喜三郎 (万葉堂) |
Woodcarver | Ōta Tashichi 太田多七 |
City | Edo aratame, Tiger 2 改寅二 |
Signature | Kaisai Yoshitoshi hitsu 魁齋芳年筆 |
Artist seal | paulownia |
Censorship seal(s) | aratame, Tiger 2 改寅二 |
Publisher’s seal(s) | Nantenma 2 Ise-Ki 南てん馬二いせ喜 |
Blockcutter’s (and/or) printer’s) seal(s) | hori Ōta Tashichi 彫太田多七 |
Inscription | 紋弥は佐々山の藩中滑方紋大夫が次男たり兄は波切重左エ門が養子と成たるを似て實家を相續を然なに父紋大夫戸倉十藏が為に横死をとげ る故兄十三と共に復讐の思ひを起し。。。 |
Technique & material | Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper |
Format | ōban |
Object number | SH2018-DM-117 |
Credit Line | Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma |
Provenance | Gifted to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma |
See Iioka no Sutegorō for a detailed description of the series