Report on Kagoshima

Information

Title Report on Kagoshima Kagoshima kiji 鹿児島記事
Artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839–1892)
Date 24/3/1877
Publisher Tsujiokaya Tsunajima Kamekichi (Kinkodō/Tōsendō) 辻岡屋綱島亀吉 (錦亀堂/島鮮堂)
City Tokyo
Signature Ōju Taiso Yoshitoshi 応需大蘇芳年
Inscription

(in title cartouche)

鹿児島暴舉の事件其故不詳と雖とも街の浮説區ま?にして真偽不全然れとも西郷隆盛将師となり初發に肥後城を奪ひ取りて夫を根とし押出さんとなしけれど官兵速くも是察し防禦嚴成き?素外手活違となりたり故に新政厚徳の旗を押立衆人を味方にせんとの謀計ならん併其終りを不知

(in publisher information cartouche)

御届 明治十年三月二十四日 otodoke Meiji jū nen san gatsu nijūyon nichi submitted: Meiji year 10, month 3, day 24

画工 南金六丁十四番地 月岡米次郎 gakō Minami-Kinrokuchō 14-banchi Tsukioka Yonejirō illustration: (Yoshitoshi’s address in Minami-Kinroku) Tsukioka Yonejirō

版主 浅草瓦丁十二番地綱嶌亀吉 hanshu Asakusa-Kawaramachi 12-banchi Tsunajima Kamekichi publisher: (publisher's address) Tsunajima Kamekichi

價六㦮 price: six sen

*Yonejirō is Yoshitoshi’s birth name

(flag)

新政府大總 陸軍之

Names from right to left:

Upper right sheet: 長山某 (“someone of the Nagayama clan”) 市本勘介 (Ichimoto Kansuke) 村田新八 (Murata Shinpachi, 1836–1877)

Lower right sheet: 別府九郎 (Beppu Kurō, b. 1842, elder brother of Beppu Shinsuke) 弟子丸慶助 (Deshimaru Keisuke, sometimes called Ōsuke) 山内半左エ門 (Yamauchi Han’emon) 肥後助左衛門 (Higo Sukezaemon) 児王八之進 (untranslated)

Upper middle sheet: 篠原国幹 (Shinohara Kunimoto, 1837–1877) 桐野利秋 (Kirino Toshiaki, 1838–1877) 松永清之丞 (松永高美) (Matsunaga Seinojō, also known as Matsunaga Takami, 1841–1877) 永山九弟 (Nagayama Kudai/Ninth Nagayama brother) 島津某 (“someone of the Shimazu clan) 山口小左衛門 (Yamaguchi Kozaemon)

Lower middle sheet: 池上四郎 (Ikenoue Shirō, 1842–1877) 前原一格 (Maehara Ikkaku)

Upper left sheet: 西郷隆盛 (Saigō Takamori, 1828–1877)

Lower left sheet:

西郷小平 (Saigō Kohei, 1847–1877, Takamori’s younger brother) 淵邊高照 (群平) (Fuchibe Takateru, also known as Fuchibe Gunpei, 1840–1877)  永山矢一郎 (Nagayama Yaichirō, 1838–1877) 別府新助 (Beppu Shinsuke, 1847–1877) 高城十二 (Takashiro Tōji) 邊見十郎太 (Henmi Jūrōta, 1849–1877) 淺井直之丞 (Asai Naonojō) 伊東直二 (Itō Naoji) 中島武彦 (Nakajima Takehiko)

Technique & material Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper
Format ōban triptych
Object number SH2018-DM-148
Credit Line Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Provenance Gifted to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma