No. 14 Takasaki, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1852 (5th month)

Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Takasaki station. A chinese interior, showing konomura oinosuke, the father of ishikawa goemon, in chinese dress, holding an unrolled kakemono of a hawk on a pine-branch; the hawk has come to life and flies off carrying a white cloth with a message written in oinosuke's blood (inset: a village at the foot of a mountain). Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Date: 1852 (5th month). Dimensions: Height: 36 centimetres Width: 24.70 centimetres. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. No. 14 Takasaki 高崎 (BM 2008,3037.14714)