Wakashima Gonemon

Categories: Tales of the Floating World on Eastern Brocade (Azuma no nishiki ukiyo kōdan)

Number
#13

Date
11/1867

Title (Kanji)
若嶋權右工門

Title (Rōmaji)
Wakashima Gonemon

Description
Wakashima Gonemon is searching in a whirlpool at the bottom of the Sumida river for an ancient dragon-headed bell (the bell is out of view at the left bottom corner, at the intersection of the two beams of light). The Water Dragon God was unwilling to part with it, and the rope that Gonemon took down to use to haul it up broke, and the bell is still there on the bottom.

Additional information

Year Published	1867
Size	Ōban
Signed	Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi hitsu
Seals	Kiri
Subjects	Men, Ocean/Sea, Plants, Writing/text
Editions	First
Publisher	Masudaya Ginjirō
Block Carvers	Hōriki Ei Katada Chō, Hōriko Fusajirō, Hōriko Hatsu

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