Ōkubo Hikozaemon Entering the Castle in a Tub

A New Selection of Eastern Brocade Pictures

情報

タイトル Ōkubo Hikozaemon Entering the Castle in a Tub Ōkubo Hikozaemon tarai no tōjō no zu 大久保彦左衛門盥登城之圖
シリーズタイトル A New Selection of Eastern Brocade Pictures 新選東錦繪
アーティスト Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839–1892)
日にち 22/3/1886
Uitgever Tsujiokaya Tsunajima Kamekichi (Kinkodō/Tōsendō) 辻岡屋綱島亀吉 (錦亀堂/島鮮堂)
木材カーバー Watanabe Yatarō 渡辺弥太郎
場所 Tokyo
サイン Yoshitoshi 芳年
アーティストシール Taiso 大蘇
彫師・摺師の印 hori Yata 彫弥太
画中文字

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御届明治十九年三月二十二日 otodoke Meiji jūkyū nen san gatsu nijūni nichi submitted in Meiji year 19, month 3, day 22

浅草須賀町二バンチ Asakusa Sugachō 2-banchi (Yoshitoshi’s address)

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

馬喰町二丁目十四番地 Bakurochō 2-chōme 14-banchi (publisher’s address)

出版人 綱島亀吉 shuppanjin Tsunajima Kamekichi publisher Tsunajima Kamekichi

*Yonejirō was Yoshitoshi’s official name

品質形状 Woodblock print; full colour print; pigment on paper
フォーマット ōban diptych
オブジェクト番号 SH2018-DM-171
Credit line Gift of Muck and Mieke Douma
Gifted to Japan Museum SieboldHuis in April 2018 by Muck and Mieke Douma

説明

Ōkubo Hikozaemon, also known as Ōkubo Tadataka (1560–1639), was a samurai who served the Tokugawa clan. He protested a ban on entering the shogun’s castle ground in a palanquin by having his men carry him to the castle in a bathtub, much to the amusement of onlookers.