In Koikawa Harumachi, Hoseido Kizanji... after “Tsutaya Juzaburo,” where the signboard artists left one after another and fell into a pinch

Playwright Hoseido Kizanji and Koikawa Harumachi published a yellow cover criticizing and satirizing shogunate politics from Tsutaya. The author of “Monmu Nidō Mangoku-dōri”, Kizanji, was a samurai whose real name was Tsunetomi Hirasawa, and even served as an homeless person in the Akita Kubota Domain. From the lord of the feudal domain, the Satake clan...