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Better a Shattered Vessel of Jade Than an Unbroken Piece of Pottery (Mushiro tama to natte kudake, nanzo yoku kawara mattaku o): Menju Katsusuke Terukage and Yamada Fujidayu, from the series Newly Selected Records of the Taikô Hideyoshi (Shinsen Taikôki)

Artist Utagawa Toyonobu (Japanese, died in 1886), Publisher Hara Taneaki (Japanese)
1883 (Meiji 16)