Copy-book of Loyalty

(Chûkô tenarai-zôshi)

Publisher: Kadzusa-ya Iwazô

1845

I am deferring to Robinson’s precedent by listing this as a series, even though only a single design is known. This print is about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

Scene: The loyal farmer Shiradayû weeping as he holds up a tray bearing an unsheathed Robinson: S41.1

‘Robinson’ refers to listing in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its unpublished supplement.

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