Nobose hikisage Gozōen
「のぼせ引さげ五臓円」
Utagawa Yasumine 歌川安峰 (fl. c. 1820s)
c. 1820s
Censor Seal
極
Kiwame
Other Text
湖龍斎先生秘授良薬囗
のぼせ引さげ五臓圓
はくかえん店
江都両国橋通中程米沢町一丁目
本家調合所 大木口哲
Commentary
Advertisement (hikifuda 引札) for "Gozōen" 五臓円, a tonic medicine to treat hot flashes, from a firm called "Ōkigōtetsu" 大木口哲 in Edo Yonezawachō (now part of Higashi-Nihonbashi) out of a shop called "Hakukaen". The drug maker still exists, now called Ohki Pharmaceutical Co. (Ōki Seiyaku 大木製薬).
Related Items
UCSF p128 (Calisphere) (c. 1860s) [a closely related design for another advertisement for the same drug]
NIJL 4428800 (#2) [An unrelated ad for the same drug and shop]