Katō Kiyomasa, Head of Financial Affairs

(in text above Kiyomasa)

幼名を虎之助と号し武勇絶倫向ふ処前なく忠義無双の英傑にして和漢にその名を軣かせり然と雖も讒者の為に若めらき征韓の功労空しく却て嫌疑を蒙り閉居の身となり無實の罪に陷んとす時なる哉　文禄の震災京阪の間殊に地さけ家屋を倒す清正閉居の？なれども單騎伏見城にはせり到りて主家を守護す豊太閤其誠忠を感じ勘気を免し改て豊臣の姓を賜ふ慶長十六年六月廿四日肥後熊本城に卒す年五十才後人加藤神社と尊敬す

(in bottom right)

明治廿六年三月　日御届 Meiji nijū roku nen san gatsu [blank] nichi insatsu shuppan printed and published in Meiji year 26, month 3

丸や町五番地　画工月岡米次郎 Maruyachō 5-banchi gakō Tsukioka Yonejirō (Yoshitoshi’s address) illustrated by Yoshitoshi Yonejirō*

浅草瓦町二番チ　出版人森本順三郎 Asakusa Kawaramachi 2-banchi shuppanjin Morimoto Junzaburō (publisher’s address) publisher Morimoto Junzaburō

價二㦮 atai nisen price 2 sen

*Yonejirō was Yoshitoshi’s official name