Number
#9

Date
1880

Title (Kanji)
第七十六代
崇徳 天皇

Title (Rōmaji)

Description
Emperor Sutoku was the seventy-fifth Emperor of Japan; he is shown here refusing to receive the monk Rennyo while the Emperor was in exile at Sanuki on the island of Shikoku.
(The ‘Rennyo’ mentioned here is not the famousRennyo, who lived three centuries after this.)

Additional information

Year Published

1880

Size

Ōban triptych

Signed

Taiso

Seals

Taiso Yoshitoshi

Subjects

Architecture, Men, Night, Writing/text

Editions

First

Publisher

Kobayashi, Matsumoto, Tsunashima

Block Carvers

Watanabe Hori Ei