Colour print from woodblocks. Ôban format.
Block-carver: Hori Ôta Tashichi.
Biographical text by Sanzantei Arindô (Sankanjin Kôrai).
Publisher: Iseki (Manyôdô). 02/1866.
Keyes 147-28
From the series of thirty-six Biographies of Modern Men (Kinsei kyôgiden) published in 1865-6.
Like many gangsters this character sports spectacular tattoos.
Bequeathed by Dr Thomas Donald Kellaway, 2002
P.208-2002