A Man of Virtue Speaks Good Words (Toku aru mono wa kanarazu kotoba ari): Takenaka Shigeharu and Konoshita Hideyoshi, No. 11 from the series Newly Selected Records of the Taikô Hideyoshi (Shinsen Taikôki)

「新撰太閤記　拾壱　有徳者必有言（とくあるものはかならずことばあり）」「竹中重治」「木下秀吉」

Utagawa Toyonobu (Japanese, died in 1886)
Publisher: Tsunajima Kamekichi (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1883 (Meiji 16), June 20

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36 x 48.1 cm (14 3/16 x 18 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number50.2923a-b

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionThe proverbial expression used as the title of this scene is a quotation from Confucius.

Signed Toyonobu ga (on left sheet only)
豊信画

Marks Blockcutter's mark: Hori Kame
彫師：彫亀

Provenance1950, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 14, 1950)