Snow: Onoe Baikō as Iwakura Sōgen

Snow, Moon, and Flowers

Information

Title Snow: Onoe Baikō as Iwakura Sōgen Yuki Iwakura Sōgen Onoe Baikō 雪 岩倉の宗 尾上梅幸
Series title Snow, Moon, and Flowers 雪月花の内
Artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839–1892)
Date 8/1890
Play Hanafubuki (Storm of Scattering Cherry Blossoms)
Publisher Akiyama Buemon (Kokkeidō) 秋山武右衛門 (滑稽堂)
Woodcarver Wada Yūjirō 和田勇次郎
City Tokyo
Signature Yoshitoshi 芳年
Artist seal Yoshitoshi 芳年
Publisher’s seal(s) kokkeidō こっけい堂
Blockcutter’s (and/or) printer’s) seal(s) hori Yū 彫勇
Inscription

(bottom left in seal)

明治廿三年八月 日印刷 Meiji nijūsan nen hachi gatsu nichi insatsu submitted in Meiji year 23, month 8, day [blank]

仝 年八月 日出版 dō nen hachi gatsu [blank] nichi shuppan Published in same year same month [blank] day

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*

日本ハシ区室丁三丁目九バンチ Nihonbashi-ku Muromachi-chō 3-chōme 9-banchi (publisher’s address)

印刷兼発行者 秋山武右エ門insatsu-ken-hakkōsha Akiyama Buemon publisher Akiyama Buemon

*Yonejirō was Yoshitoshi’s official name

Technique & material Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper
Format ōban triptych
Object number SH2018-DM-173
Credit Line Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Provenance Gifted to Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma