Namekata Mon’ya

Stories of Modern Chivalrous Men

Information

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

Description

See Iioka no Sutegorō for a detailed description of the series