この作品は、1888年（ねずみ年）に東京の中島武次郎が神戸の前田吉彦に送った年賀状です。中島は力強く上昇する鳳凰と可愛らしいねずみの後ろ姿をインクで描いてます。中島が前田先生机下」と呼んでいることから、かつて中島は前田吉彦の芸術学生だったと考えられます。
This New Year's card was sent by Nakajima Takejiro in Tokyo to Maeda Yoshihiko in Kobe in 1888 (the Year of the Rat). Nakajima inked a powerful, ascending phoenix and a cute, rear view of a rat. Since Nakajima addresses Maeda as "sensei" and "under your desk," it is believed that Nakajima was once an art student of Maeda.
This Nakajima Takejiro may have been the one who transcribed "Akayama Kōwa" (赤山講話 [バックストン講述]; 中島武次郎筆記) in 1896 for Barclay Fowell Buxton, a British missionary.
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