Oda Taira Nobunaga Minister of the Right

Famous Exemplary Generals of Great Japan

Information

Title Oda Taira Nobunaga Minister of the Right Oda udaijin Taira Nobunaga 織田右大臣平信長
Series title Famous Exemplary Generals of Great Japan 近大日本名将鑑
Artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839–1892)
Date 18/10/1878
Publisher Funatsu Chūjirō 舟津忠次郎
City Tokyo
Signature ōju Yoshitoshi 応需芳年
Artist seal Taiso 大蘇
Inscription

Inscriptions:

[in left margin]

Maruyachō 5-banchi 丸屋町五番地 (Yoshitoshi’s address)

gakō Tsukioka Yonejirō 画工月岡米次郎 Image created by: Tsukioka Yonejirō*

Azuma Fukuda-chō 2-banchi 東福田町二番地 (Publisher’s address)

shuppanjin Funatsu Chūjirō 出版人舩津忠次郎 Publisher: Funatsu Chūjirō

Teijisen Gorin 定二㦮五厘 [Price] fixed at 2 sen 5 rin

*Yonejirō is Yoshitoshi’s birth name

[in cartouche]

織田信秀の二子幼名吉法師後上縦介と号す初め偽かて愚となり用を做ざるが如し其臣平手中務諌死するに及び悔ひて本性を顕はす知勇絶倫嘗て尾州桶狭間に義元を討しより四方皆魘せられ威名天下に震ひ遂に中原を差呑し大将軍の職を奉じたしも一夕逆臣明智光秀の為に誤まられ京師本鮎寺に於て自侭す時に年四十九嗚呼惜かな

Technique & material Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper
Format ōban
Object number SH2018-DM-152
Credit Line Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Provenance Gifted to Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma

Description

Collector seal E. Mathon, Artiste-Peintre (Émile Louis Mathon)