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Kaidōmaru

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Title Kaidōmaru Kaidōmaru 怪童丸
Date 1881
Publisher Kodama Matashichi 児玉又七
City Tokyo
Signature Yoshitoshi 芳年
Artist seal Taiso 大蘇
Inscription

(in cartouche)

相刕足柄山に成出し怪童丸ハ常に猛獣とたわむれ遊バ地を抜の力ありて七文の比より源の頼光が臣となりて名を坂田主馬之助金時とたまわり成長にしたがひ武勇絶論[sic]なりしかバ遂に頼光が四天王の随一となり頼光が死後に至り其終所をしらす

(in left margin)

Meiji jūyon nen [blank] gatsu [blank] hi otodoke　明治十四年　月　日

Submitted in Meiji year 14, month [blank], day [blank]
Width 24 cm
Height 17,5 cm
Object number SH2018-DM-106
Credit Line Collection Japan Museum SieboldHuis, gift of Muck and Mieke Douma, 2018