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Jimoguri Matazō

Jimoguri Matazō

Stories of Modern Chivalrous Men

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Title	Jimoguri Matazō Jimoguri Matazō 地もぐり又藏
Series title	Stories of Modern Chivalrous Men 近世侠義傳
Artist	Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839–1892)
Date	2/1866
Publisher	Iseya Kisaburō (Man’yōdō) 伊勢屋喜三郎 (万葉堂)
Woodcarver	Ōta Tashichi 太田多七
City	Edo

Signature	Kaisai Yoshitoshi hitsu 魁齋芳年筆
Artist seal	paulownia
Censorship seal(s)	aratame, Tiger 2 改寅二
Publisher’s seal(s)	Nantenma 2 Ise-Ki 南てん馬二いせ喜
Blockcutter’s (and/or) printer’s) seal(s)	hori Ōta Tashichi 彫太田多七
Inscription	又藏ハ強性我慢の白痴ながら好色の僻ありて湖来なる河内屋某が抱みきがもとにかよふといへども彼みきは荒甥留吉が忰留次郎の美男になづみ又藏を疫神の如く忌嫌あればある夜留次郎の来るをうかゞひ日頃のうらみ今宵を過すべからずとて留次郎が堅敷へ踏込み拳をあぎて彼者を打擲なすをり清滝佐七爰に来合せ彼ハ捨五郎が子ぶんの片われねがふてもなき對敵なりと其所へをどり出我ハ清滝佐七と名のり有あふ燭臺おつとつて一上一下とたゝかひしが更に勝負もつかざりきるとぞ

Technique & material	Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper
Format	ōban

Object number	SH2018-DM-143
Credit Line	Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Provenance	Gifted to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma