Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
Toyotomi Hidetsugu (1868-1595) on an autumn full moon night, sitting quietly and meditating on his fate. Accused of treason and imprisoned in a temple, he was forced to commit ritual suicide (seppuku) by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The waka poem of the title was written in this situation.
Title: おもひきや雲ゐの秋のそらならて竹あむ窓の月を見んとは - 秀次 - Omoikiya / kumoi no aki no / sora harete / take amu mado no / tsuki o min to wa - Hidetsugu (Did I ever imagine that as the clouds of the high autumn sky cleared I would view the moon through a bamboo lattice window - Hidetsugu)
Series: Tsuki hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon)
Signature: Yoshitoshi
Seal: Taiso
Engraver: Yamamoto
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon, Tokyo
Date: Meiji 22 (1889)
Size: Vertical Ôban, 33.1 x 22.5 cm (image)
Excellent impression and colours, with relief and lustre printing. Full margins, not backed. Some creasing in top and bottom areas. Two small brown spots at lower right.Verso some some stains (not showing through). Overall very good condition.
Ill. in Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's one hundred aspects of the moon, Redmond 1992, no. 65. Tjardes, One Hundred Aspects of The Moon, Santa Fe, 2003, no. 58; Verberk, Yoshitoshi - Hundert Ansichten des Mondes, Cologne 2021, no. 79. Cf. also British Museum, 1906,1220,0.1402.
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