Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title: No. 14 Takasaki 高崎 / Kisokaido rokujoku tsugi no uchi 木曾街道六十九次之内 (Sixty-Nine Post Stations of the Kisokaido)
Date: 1852 (5th month)
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Source:
British Museum
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Description:
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Takasaki Station. A Chinese interior, showing Konomura Oinosuke, the father of Ishikawa Goemon, in Chinese dress, holding an unrolled kakemono of a hawk on a pine-branch; the hawk has come to life and flies off carrying a white cloth with a message written in Oinosuke's blood (Inset: a village at the foot of a mountain). Woodblock print, oban tate-e.
