Galerie Christian Collin

(1839 - 1892)

The wife of Sangoro, the owner of a noodle shop in Kawaguchi, scalds her husband's face with boiling water

Woodblock print

1875

Impression on Japan paper, signed ōju Taiso Yoshitoshi, plate from the series Postal News (Yūbin hōchi shinbun), published by Ebisuya Shôshichi. Censor's seal Boar 4.

The Yūbin hōchi shinbun was a newspaper founded in 1873. Yoshitoshi was hired in 1875 to illustrate a wide variety of subjects like political, crime, public interest and ghost stories...

Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.

Sheet: ôban (365 x 242 mm)

Condition: laid on thick Japan paper, lack of colors in margins.