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High Priest Yūten
A Mirror of Great Accomplishments
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| Title | High Priest Yūten Yūten daisōjō 祐天大僧正 |
| Series title | A Mirror of Great Accomplishments 雅立功名鑑 |
| Artist | Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839–1892) |
| Date | 1877? |
| Publisher | Kodama Matashichi 児玉又七 |
| City | Tokyo |
| Signature | Yoshitoshi芳年 |
| Artist seal | Taiso 大蘇 |
| Inscription | (in cartouche) 祐天和尚の陸奥岩城郡岩城村百姓妻長右エ門といふ者の一子なり幼名を三之助と称す十一才の時より舘林團通和尚り従弟となれとも生ひつ愚昧にして一経も覚得ず自ら悔て下奥の国成田山不動明王へ祈誓をかしケ[?]夢中に利剱を呑て悪血を吐後博学となり昔／\世上の怨灵を成佛させ遂に三縁山増上寺三十六世見誉祐天大僧正と称す (in left margin) Meiji [blank] nen [blank] gatsu [blank] hi otodoke 明治 年 月 日 Submitted Meiji year [blank], month [blank], day [blank] gakō Nezu Miyanaga-chō 315 banchi Tsukioka Yonejirō 画工 根津宮永丁三十五番チ 月岡米次郎 Illustrator: (Yoshitoshi’s address) – Tsukioka Yonejirō* *Yonejirō is Yoshitoshi’s birth name |
| Technique & material | Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper |
| Format | chūban |
| Object number | SH2018-DM-100 |
| Credit Line | Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma |
| Provenance | Gifted to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma |
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