Author: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年), here with the Taiso (大蘇) seal.
Subject: Egawa Tarōzaemon (江川太郎左エ門).
Series: Personalities of recent times (kinsei jinbutsu shi, 近世人物誌).
Number: 13.
Genre: denki (伝記), kakuden (各伝).
Size: large (ōban, 大判) 36,8 cm x 25,3cm (14,48 x 9,96 inches).
Publisher: Yamato shinbun sha, n°315 (やまと新聞社, 第三百十一号附録).
Period: c. 1887.
Trimmed: no
Backed: no
Code: TYT01001
Condition: really good condition. Color is pretty clear and vivid with good saturation. There are not
remarkable stains,
wrinkles nor crease. Any sign of fixing. It is not been backed.
This print was produced as a supplement of the Yamato Newspaper and distributed to its subscribers.
It portraits Egawa Tarōzaemon, thinker and military advisor who suggested the Tokugawa Shogunate to improve
Japanese military
defense prior to the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853.
His forename was Egawa Hidetake (江川 英武), 38th descendant of the Egawa House, which claimed to have his origin
in Minamoto
Yorichika (源頼親), founder of the Yamato Genji (大和 源氏) line lived back in the Heian period (794 ~ 1185).
Here he is gently playing the koto (琴) for Tokugawa Nariaki (徳川 斉昭), Lord of Mito, who seems to be completed
absorbed in listening,
delighted.
Beauties behind a byōbu, or Japanese folding screen, are enjoying the scene too.