Number
#21

Date
No date seal

Title (Kanji)
聖嬰文王, 紅孩児

Title (Rōmaji)
Seiei Bunō, Kōgaiji

Description
The mythical being shown here is the Boy Sage King, who is also known by the nickname Red Boy; the two cartouches give his name and nickname.
The second cartouche starts with the characters 又 号 (mata gō), which mean, roughly, ‘other sobriquet’.
There is almost certainly an error in the third character of the first cartouche, as his name is usually written with the character 大, not 文 as here. This variant is seen nowhere else, except this print; the reading with the usual character is Seiei Taiō.

Additional information

Year Published

1865

Size

Ōban

Signed

Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi

Seals

Unread

Subjects

Animals, Battles, God/goddess, Mythology

Editions

First

Publisher

Fukuta

Block Carvers

Unknown