Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年) (artist 04/30/1839 – 06/09/1892)
Ake Tamanosuke (朱 珠之助) from the series Sagas of Beauty and Bravery (Biyū Suikoden - 美勇水滸伝)
12/1866
6.875 in x 9.375 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Ikkai Yoshitoshi ga
魁斎芳年画
Publisher: Ōmiya Kyūjirō (Marks 415 - seal 30-034)
Combined date and aratame censor seal: 12/1866
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Marega Collection, Universita Pontificia Salesiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
National Gallery of Victoria
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Ville de Genève
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München
Bibliothèque nationale de France - #38 in an album "The chūban prints from this series were printed two to a block and then cut... The production of the set lasted from 4/1866-4/1867. Once completed, it was issued with an unsigned, undated title page and a contents page that itemised all fifty prints, with the signature Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga (picture by Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi) and the name of Kanagaki Robun in the left margin."
Quoted from: Yoshitoshi: Masterpieces from the Ed Freis Collection, page 85. The authors note that there appears to be a later edition where the publisher's seal has been left blank.
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There are 8 other images from this series in the Lyon Collection (#s 404, 1076, 1103, 1104, 1155, 1156, 1157 and 1189), plus the frontispiece (#1191) and title page (#1190).
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The figure behind Ake Tamanosuke is a painted wooden sculpture of his mentor Kansho.
Ōmiya Kyūjirō (近江屋久次郎) (publisher)
Suikoden (水滸傳) (genre)
warrior prints (musha-e - 武者絵) (genre)
Kanagaki Robun (仮名垣魯文) (author)