Uesugi Terutora, the Priest Kenshin

Famous Exemplary Generals of Great Japan

Information

Title Uesugi Terutora, the Priest Kenshin Uesugi Terutora nyūdō Kenshin 上杉輝虎入道謙信
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

Technique & material Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper
Format ōban
Object number SH2018-DM-158
Credit Line Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Provenance Gifted to Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma