Brother Pictures: A Select Comparison of Warriors

(Ekyôdai mitate musha awase, 繪兄弟見立武者合)

Publisher: Wakamatsu-ya Yoshirô

c. 1834

Each print in this series shows a beautiful woman (bijin, 美人) who is likened to a famous warrior, whose image is inset. The series is listed as 91 in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1961). The prints are about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

	Title: Keishin at the Fish Market (Uoichi, 魚市), Humility (Taninobu, 渓信) Description: A child crawling through its motherʼs legs at a fish market compared to the virtue of humility in inset
	Another state of the above design with the seal of the publisher Wakamatsu-ya Yoshirô (seal name 若松) in the left lower corner
	Title: Kiso Yoshinaka at Kurikara Pass (Kiso Yoshinaka kurikara toge) Description: Beauty on a staircase
	Another state of the above design
	Title: Kusunoki Masashige (楠公ノ夜打) Description: Beauty standing next to a folding screen
	Title: Ishibashiyama (石橋山) Description: Woman with bundles of wood

“Robinson” indicates listing in Kuniyoshi by Basil William Robinson, 1961, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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