Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Tengan Isobei 天眼磯兵衞, Edo Period

Maker

Title

Tengan Isobei 天眼磯兵衞

Year

Edo Period

Medium

ink and colors

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Vertical ōban: 38.2 x 26.5 cm (15 1/16 x 10 7/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription: 信濃の国黒姫山乃住孝子平吉が為に敵を見出さんと上總音信山の城下祭禮に

艸相撲有しが夜叉嵐と名乗飛入と呼わ？？許多の若者？相手に

做し関取角力迄投精神倍盛なるを磯兵衛朝花川を七つく夜叉嵐にて取組土俵の真中に地響させく打倒を


Signature: 一勇斎國芳画 Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga (Pictured by Kuniyoshi)

Seals: Publisher's seal: 吉両国加〻や Kichi ryogoku kagaya (Kagaya Kichiemon)
Censor Seal: 極 Kiwame

Place

Place Made: Japan

Type

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Frances Middendorf and Elizabeth T. and Dorothy N. Casey Fund

Object Number

2024.1.2

Tengan Isobei 天眼磯兵衞
from the series One of the Eight Hundred Heroes of the Water Margin of Japan (本朝水滸傳豪傑八百人一個Honchō Suikoden gōyū happyakunin no hitori )

Inscription: 信濃の国黒姫山乃住孝子平吉が為に敵を見出さんと上總音信山の城下祭禮に

艸相撲有しが夜叉嵐と名乗飛入と呼わ？？許多の若者？相手に

做し関取角力迄投精神倍盛なるを磯兵衛朝花川を七つく夜叉嵐にて取組土俵の真中に地響させく打倒を


Signature: 一勇斎國芳画 Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga (Pictured by Kuniyoshi)

Seals: Publisher's seal: 吉両国加〻や Kichi ryogoku kagaya (Kagaya Kichiemon)
Censor Seal: 極 Kiwame

Place Made: Japan
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