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Niimachi Kanta splitting the head of an enemy attacker

Niimachi Kanta splitting the head of an enemy attacker

Colour print from woodblocks. Ôban format.
Block-carver: Hori Ôta Tashichi Biographical text by Sanzantei Arindô (Sankanjin Kôrai).
Publisher: Iseki (Manyôdô). 10/1865.
Keyes 147-2

From the series of thirty-six Biographies of Modern Men (Kinsei kyôgiden) published in 1865-6.

Bequeathed by Dr Thomas Donald Kellaway 2002

P.201-2002

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