Heroic Stories of the Taiheiki, Part II

	Robinson: S62.19 Number: 46 Description: Kido Takuzaemon Nagachika (木戸宅左衛門長近) bareheaded in armor holding a heavy metal bar Historical character: Kido Sakuzaemon Norishige
	Another state of the above design
	Print from an unnumbered edition of this series
S62.20 probably does not exist*
	Robinson: S62.21 Number: 49 Description: Ko-ayakawa Sayemon-no-suke Takakane (小綾川左エ門佐高兼) seated with court dress over his armor Historical character: Kobayakawa Takakage
	Robinson: S62.22 Number: 18 Description: Matsunaga Daizen Hisahide (松永大膳久英) kneeling on a fur, about to commit seppuku Historical character: Matsunaga Danjô Hisahide
	Robinson: S62.23 Number: 16 Description: 16-year-old Menju Sôsuke Iyeteru (毛受想助家照) retrieving the gohei standard of Katsuie which had been seized by the enemy Historical character: Menju Shôsuke Ieteru
	Robinson: S62.24 Number: 42 Description: Nagamura Bunkasai Michiie (永村文荷蔡道家), bareheaded in armor, having just broken a pottery vessel against the wall Historical character: Nakamura Bunkasai
	Robinson: S62.25 Number: taibi (final, i.e. 50) Description: Naka-ura Sarukichirô Hisayoshi (中浦猿吉郎久吉) accepting a melon from a kneeling peasant Historical character: Toyotomi Hideyoshi
	Robinson: S62.26 Number: 26 Description: Negoro no Komizucha (根来小水茶) dressed as a warrior-monk, fighting with a long nail-studded club Historical character: Negoro-no Komizucha
	Another state of the above design
	Robinson: S62.27 Number: 23 Description: Orio Mosuke Yasuharu (織尾茂助安春), as a youth, overcoming a huge wild boar Historical character: Horio Mosuke Yoshiharu NOTE: The illustrated example is from an unnumbered edition
	Robinson: S62.28 Number: 1 (㊀) Description: Ôta Kazusa no Suke Taira no Harunagakyô (大多上总總介平春永公) in court robes with a tachi (long sword) in a tiger skin sheath Historical character: Oda Nobunaga NOTE: The illustrated example is from an unnumbered edition
	Robinson: S62.29 Number: 40 Description: Sada Mutsu no Kami Arimasa (佐田陸奥守有正) on horseback in the snow Historical character: Sassa Narimasa
	Robinson: S62.30 Number: 36 Description: Saitô Kuranoshin Toshikazu (菜籐内藏之進年員) raising his straw hat against the wind Historical character: Saitô Kuranosuke Toshimitsu
	Another state of the above design
	A partially printed sheet of the above design
	Robinson: S62.31 Number: 48 Description: Saitô Toshimoto Nyûdô Ryûhon (菜籐利基入道立本), in armor, struggling with a Chinese warrior underwater Historical character: Saitô Toshimitsu nyûdô Ryûhon
	Another state of the above design
	Yet another state
	Robinson: S62.32 Number: 6 (㊅) Description: Saitô Uhyôe-no-tayû Katsuoki (菜藤右兵衛大夫勝興) cutting flying arrows with his sword Historical character: Saitô Uheenotayû Tatsuoki
	Robinson: S62.33 Number: 4 (㊃) Description: Saitô Yamashiro no Kami Hidetatsu Nyûdô Jôsan (菜籐山城守秀龍入道乗三) standing in court robes with a straw hat and a tachi (long sword) in a tiger skin scabbard Historical character: Saitô Toshimasa nyûdô Dôsan
	Another state of the above design
	Robinson: S62.34 Number: 41 Description: Sakurai Takichi Kiyokazu (櫻井多吉清) wearing a sashimono adorned with black circles surrounding the character 魁 (sakigake, leader) Historical character: Sakurai Sakichi Iekazu
	Robinson: S62.35 Number: 24 Description: Sama-no-suke Fujiwara no Yasuakira (左馬之助藤原保明) in armor wearing a haori and carrying a jûmonji spear Historical character: Katô Samanosuke Yoshiaki

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

* Somerwil, Johan, ‘Kuniyoshi’s Taiheiki Series: 50 or 51 Prints?’, Andon, No. 78, pp. 26-29, 2005

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