Umanosuke
Umanosuke
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The story as given on the print is that the ronin Umanosuke was drinking in a sake shop when he overhead two samurai making disloyal remarks; at this, he became enraged, and cut them both down with a single stroke (a tray of food also became involved).
series 'Keisei suikoden (竸勢 醉虎傳 - Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers)'. (The title is now usually written with the simplified characters 競, 酔 and 伝; 競勢 酔虎伝.)
The title has one of the written/spoken puns common in Japanese woodblock prints: although the second word is pronounced "suikoden" (the same as the well-known 'Water Margin' tale), it is written with different kan-ji, hence has a very different meaning.
It dates from the middle of Yoshitoshi's career, when he was about thirty-five. It thus dates from a little over a decade before his well-known masterpieces such as his great series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" (1885-1892), and "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts" (often called simply "Thirty-Six Ghosts") (1889-1892).
Date: 1874
Condition: Very good, some dirt and pinholes.
Publisher: Masadaya
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