Individual Warrior Prints

1830 - 1833

These prints are listed in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its privately published supplement as S1b. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for his contributions to this section.

	Scene: Musashi-bô Benkei (武蔵坊 弁慶) fully armored by moonlight with flying bats Publisher: Tsuru-ya Kiemon Date: c. 1832 Robinson: S1b.1
	A simplified state of the above design
	A further simplified state with a blue upper border
	Scene: Minamoto Yoshitsune (源 義經) seated on a stool in full armor beneath a blossoming plum tree Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: c. 1833 Robinson: S1b.2
	Scene: Watanabe Tsuna (渡邉綱) standing with Ibaraki-dôji’s severed arm in his left hand and a drawn sword in his right hand, against a background of surging black clouds Publisher: Tsuru-ya Kiemon Date: c. 1832 Robinson: S1b.3 I am grateful to Vladislav Shevyrev for this image.
	Another state in which the green garment is unpatterned
	Scene: Satô Shirô Tadanobu (佐藤四郎忠信) brandishing a go board in his last defense with a plain background. Tadanobu’s kimono displays his family crest Publisher: Tsuru-ya Kiemon Date: c. 1832 Robinson: S1b.4
	Another state of the above design with different patterns in the clothing
	Scene: Sakata Kintoki (坂田金時) wrestling with a three-eyed mikoshi-nyûdô Publisher: No seal Date: c. 1832 Robinson: S1b.5 NOTE: Mikoshi-nyûdô (見越し入道 or 見越入道) are bald-headed male goblins that can elongate their necks. Robinson (in the supplement) calls the goblin a rokurokubi (ろくろ首 or 轆轤首), which are usually female.
	Another state without red in Kintoki’s skin or kimono decorations
	Title: Sakata Kintarô (坂田金太郎) Scene: Kintarô as Yoshitoshi throwing beans at a small demon Publisher: Izumi-ya Ichibei (泉市) Date: c. 1832 Robinson: Not listed
	Another state of the above design lacking a green ground
	Another state with an uncolored bean container. Another seal, believed to be a collector’s seal, was added above the round censor’s seal.
	Title: Sakata Kintoki (坂田金時) Scene: Kintoki chasing demons away with a broom Publisher: Date: c. 1832 Robinson: Not listed
	Another state of the above design without any green
	Title: Matano Gorô (俣野五郎, barely visible on rock) Scene: Matano Gorô Kagehisa (俣野五郎景久) holding a huge rock Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô Date: c. 1831-1832 Robinson: Not listed
	Title: Sakata Kintoki (阪田金時) Scene: Sakata Kintoki wrestling a mikoshi-nyudo Publisher: Wakasa-ya Yoichi (seal Waka, 岩) Date: c. 1831-1832 Robinson: Not listed I am grateful to Robert Pryor for 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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