108 Heroes of the Popular Suikoden,

Part II

 

 

Japanese name: Rôrihakuchô Chôjun (浪裡白跳張順)

Chinese name: Zhang Shun

Scene: Rôrihakuchô Chôjun with a sword between his teeth wrenches apart the bars of a water gate

Robinson: S47.16

 

Another state

 

Another state with a green gate decoration

 

Japanese name: Ryûchitaisai (or Ritchitaisai) Genshôji (立地太歳阮小二)

Chinese name: Ruan Xiao’er

Scene: Ryûchitaisai Genshôji in a boat using a rudder to ward off flying arrows

Robinson: S47.17

 

Japanese name: Sekibakki (or Sekihakki) Ryutô (赤髪鬼劉唐)

Chinese name: Liu Tang

Scene: Sekibakki Ryutô seated on a dais beneath a brocade curtain

Robinson: S47.18

 

Japanese name: Sekishôgun Sekiyû (石將軍石勇)

Chinese name: Shi Yong

Scene: Sekishôgun Sekiyû throwing a broken cangue (wooden punishment yoke) at foe

Robinson: S47.19

 

Japanese name: Senkwaji (or Senkaji) Chôô (舩火兒張横)

Chinese name: Zhang Heng

Scene: The Boatman Senkwaji Chôô on a river bank wringing out his loincloth with a bag in his mouth

Robinson: S47.20

 

Japanese name: Shameisaburô (or Henmeisanrô) Sekishû (捨命三郎石秀)

Chinese name: Shi Xui

Scene: Shameisaburô Sekishû in wide straw hat carrying a mokugyo (wooden ceremonial drum with carved fish design) and a stick

Robinson: S47.21

 

Japanese name: Shûgumba (or Shûgunba) Sensan (醜軍馬宣賛)

Chinese name: Xuan Zan

Scene: Shûgumba Sensan in a wind by a torrent makes a sword stroke while his hat blows away

Robinson: S47.22

 

Another state of the above print (note the red signature seals)

 

Japanese name: Taitô Kwanshô (or Daitô Kanshô, 大刀關勝)

Chinese name: Guan Sheng

Scene: Taitô Kwanshô on the seashore swinging his huge glaive (pole arm)

Robinson: S47.23

 

Japanese name: Tammeijirô (or Tanmeijirô) Genshôgo (短命二郎阮小五)

Chinese name: Ruan Xiaowu

Scene: Tammeijirô Genshôgo under water grasping a rope with a sword in his other hand

Robinson: S47.24

 

This is another state of the above print with markedly different colors 

 

Japanese name: Botsumenmoku Shôtei (沒靣目 焦挺)

Chinese name: Jiao Ting

Scene: Jiao Ting in a wrestling match

Robinson: Unlisted

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for locating this drawing in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, which was never made into a woodblock print.

 

 

 

Japanese name: Bokutenô Riô (撲天鵰 李應)

Chinese name: Li Ying

Scene: Li Ying tearing down a wall

Robinson: Unlisted

 

I am grateful to Robert Pryor for locating this drawing in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, which was never made into a woodblock print.

 

Japanese name: Kyubiki Tôsô-ô, nicknamed Nine-tailed Turtle (九尾龜 陶宗旺)

Chinese name: Tao Tsung-wang (or Tao Zongwang)

Scene: Kyubiki Tôsô-ô with a shield

Robinson: Unlisted

 

NOTE: This drawing in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum was never made into a woodblock print.

Japanese name: Unrikongô Sôman (雲里金剛宋萬), nicknamed Giant in the Clouds

Chinese name: Song Wan

Scene: Unrikongô Sôman with a Buddhist statue

Robinson: Unlisted

 

NOTE: This drawing in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum was never made into a woodblock print.

 

I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image.

 

“Robinson” refers to listing in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its privately published supplement.

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