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Takao

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Title Takao Takao たか雄
Date 10/1885
Publisher Akiyama Buemon (Kokkeidō) 秋山武右衛門 (滑稽堂)
Woodcarver Yamamoto Shinji 山本信司
City Edo
Signature Yoshitoshi 芳年
Artist seal Yoshitoshi 芳年
Blockcutter’s (and/or) printer’s) seal(s) hori kō Yamamoto tō 彫工山本刀
Inscription

(in title cartouche)

君は今 駒かたあたり ほとゝきす たか雄

Kimi wa ima / Komakata atari / hototogisu —Takao

By now / you must be near Komakata / a cuckoo calls —Takao

(two poems, read from right to left)

其筆慕ふ夏の有明 北里某樓たれ

Sono hitsu shitau natsu no ariake —Kitazato borō Tare

Longing for that brush, at the dawn of summer —Tare of the Kitazato Brothel

竹の窓 袖なし衣 つゝらせて 桂花園

Take no mado / sodenashi goromo / tsuzurasete —Keikaen

By the bamboo window, sewing a sleeveless robe —Keikaen

(in left margin)

御届明治十八年十月 日 otodoke Meiji jūhachi nen jū gatsu [blank] nichi Submitted Meiji year 18, month 10, day [blank]

浅草須賀町二番地 Asakusa Sugachō 2-banchi (Yoshitoshi’s address)

画工月岡米次郎 gakō Tsukioka Yonejirō image created by: Tsukioka Yonejirō*

日本バシ室町三丁目九番地 Nihonbashi Muromachi-chō 3-chōme 9-banchi (publisher's address)

版元秋山武右エ門 hanmoto Akiyama Buemon publisher: Akiyama Buemon

[sealed:] 組合証 kumiai akashi Guild Certified

*Yonejirō is Yoshitoshi’s official name

Width 25 cm
Height 37,3 cm
Object number SH2018-DM-087
Credit Line Collection Japan Museum SieboldHuis, gift of Muck and Mieke Douma, 2018