Posted by Alec W. (2.25.175.177) on August 27, 2022 at 00:00:45:
In Reply to: Daimyo Procession posted by John Campbell on August 26, 2022 at 20:16:44:
The artist is Tōshū Shōgetsu 東洲勝月, here signing "ōju Shōgetsu" 応需 勝月. The design comes from a series entitled "Onko Azuma nishiki" 温古東錦 (maybe something like "Old Customs in Eastern Brocade"?).
Hara Shobo sold an impression of this:
https://www.harashobo.com/english/ukiyoe_detail.php?print_id=28349
https://www.harashobo.com/ukiyoe/ukiyoe_detail.php?print_id=28349
They gloss the design title as "Feudal lords visiting Ueno at New Year", but the Japanese text also mentions a mausoleum -- presumably it is a scene of daimyō arriving to pay respects at the Tokugawa family mausolea in the Kan'ei-ji temple complex.
I notice that there seem to be two very similar series by Shōgetsu with similar names: this one, "Onko Azuma nishiki" 温古東錦 (published by Asaga Tetsujirō 浅賀鉄次郎) and "Kanko Azuma nishiki" 歓古東錦 (published by Katada Chōjirō 片田長治郎), both around 1889.
-A