Brother Pictures –
Desires Taken at Face Value
(E-kyôdai negai no gakumen, 繪兄弟願の額面)
Publisher: Kofunami (小舟三)
1846
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This series comparing scenes from kabuki plays with warriors is not listed in Robinson. The prints are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for his contributions to this section. |
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Main figure: An ice water
seller (utsumaki-taki botefuri)
holding a dipper Inset: Priest Mongaku Shônin under a
waterfall |
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Another state of the above print (note the color on the upper
portion) |
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Main figures: A young samurai with a kaishi paper and a writing
brush, his servant is holding a yatate Inset: Yoshitsune and Benkei with the poem placard under a
cherry tree at Suma |
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Another state of the above design |
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Main figure: A woman and
child search for a hidden mouse Inset: Yoritomo and
his retainers hiding in a hollow tree after the Battle of Ishibashiyama |
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Another state of the above design |
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Main figure: Seigen grabbing Sakura Hime’s kimono as she attempts
to escape Inset: The armor-pulling
scene (kusazuribiki) in which Asahina tears
off Soga Goro’s thigh-guard in an attempt to restrain him |
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Main figure: A woman snatching
off a traveller’s kasa
hat Inset: Kagekiyo pulling off Kunitoshi’s
shikorobiki (helmet-guard) at the Battle of
Yashima |
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“Robinson”
indicates listing in Kuniyoshi by
Basil William Robinson, 1961, CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO MAIN PAGE
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