Yamanaka Shikanosuke

Mirror of Great Accomplishments

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Title Yamanaka Shikanosuke Yamanaka Shikanosuke 山中鹿之助
Series title Mirror of Great Accomplishments 雅立功名鑑
Artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839–1892)
Date 1881?
Publisher Kodama Matashichi 児玉又七
City Tokyo
Signature Yoshitoshi 芳年
Artist seal Taiso 大蘇
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(in cartouche)

真田が十士の一人相木森之助ハ主人幸隆上田開城の後妻を引連て山林に閉篭たり折節其妻男子を産り幼兒山中に生立がゆへに常に猪猿をとめがきとす父母奥じて其名を山中鹿之助とよぶ育にしたらい父が武勇を 英勇並ものなし成長の後山と出て昌幸幸村に仕へ真田家二代の忠臣なり

(in left margin)

Meiji jū nen [blank] gatsu [blank] hi otodoke 明治十 年 月 日

Submitted Meiji year 1X, 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-107
Credit Line Schenking Muck en Mieke Douma
Provenance In april 2018 geschonken aan Japanmuseum SieboldHuis door Muck en Mieke Douma