Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)
Toshima Yasôemon Tsuneki kneeling on an overwhelmed mugger, two of his cronies are already bound on a tree. In the cartouche above a poem and a pine tree on a rock, signed Tori-jo (a daughter of Kuniyoshi)
Title: (syllable) Ku: Toshima Yasôemon Tsuneki
Series: Seichû gishin meimei kagami (Mirror of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Retainers, i.e. the 47 Rônin)
Signature: Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
Seal: Yoshikiri
Publisher: Horikoshi
Censors/Date: 3/1857
Size: Oban, 37 x 24,4 (paper size)
Very nice impression and colours. Originally mounted, margins a little bit trimmed, a weak fold, otherwise very good condition.
Robinson, The Warrior-Prints, S 90.17. MFA Boston No. 33.1166.26. British Museum No. 2008,3037.08313.
Fig. also in: Samurai, Bühnenstars und schöne Frauen. Japanische Farbholzschnitte von Kunisada und Kuniyoshi. Kat. Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, 2011, p 173, No. 148.
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