Rakan no Takezō

Information

Title	Rakan no Takezō Rakan no Takezō 羅漢の竹蔵
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	竹藏は岩崎の産市五郎が兄たり同胞共に柔和温厚なるをもて羅漢に賞し佛と呼ね遮莫力量群に秀達衆敉軰の冠たり彼土浦皆次長差權治が宅にて捨五郎が書状を得三人比しく盛力が徒を捕んと商議なし竹藏もとはしたしき中なるをもて皆次人なり前に松嵜にしもむき少し後れて權次半治も松嵜に来あはせければ兄弟大によろこび酒宴半途飯岳に喧嘩ありと人々奔走なせば皆次木三人はイデ盛力が乱防なればからめとつてくれんずと各手㔟を引連て飯岳へ趣くものから竹藏兄弟も同く子分をしたがへて横根三宅の間をかぎり場へ出て飯岳の後手へこそは出たりけれ一家畧傅史山々有人記

Object number	SH2018-DM-136
Credit Line	Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Provenance	Gifted to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma

Description

See Iioka no Sutegorō for a description about the series: https://www.sieboldhuis.org/co...

Takezō was from the area around the Jizō Temple of Five Hundred Arhats (Jizōji Gohyaku Rakan) in Awa Province in northeastern Shikoku. Yoshitoshi depicts him performing a feat of unbelievable strength, holding a giant sake keg with a man on top with his stretched out arm, as if it were as light as a feather, while enjoying his tobacco pipe (kiseru).