Mirror of Military Excellence and Fierce Courage

(Buyei môyû kagami, 武英猛勇鏡)

Publisher: Ise-ya Sanjirô

c. 1836

The prints in this series are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

	Title: Tosa-bo Horikawa Gosho e ya-utsu Scene: Hirotsune, the Taira turncoat, and Yukiuji Robinson: S7.1 Image courtesy of Michael Reiss
	This state lacks the publisher’s seal (at the bottom edge). Most likely, this was printed by a second publisher who purchased the woodblocks from Ise-ya Sanjirô.
	This keyblock print (kyôgô or kyôgozuri-e) for the above design is an impression pulled from the first woodblock made by a carver from Kuniyoshi’s original drawing.
	Title: Kaido-shi ato ni Sakata Kintoki Scene: Kintoki (坂田公時) and the serpent Robinson: S7.2
	Keyblock print for the above design
	Scene: Gozen Gorô Maru Shigemune (御所五郎丸重宗) seizing Soga Gorô Tokimune (曽我五郎時宗) Robinson: S7.3
	Keyblock print for the above design
	Scene: Tomoe-gozen (巴御前) throttling Uchida Saburô (内田三郎) by a waterfall Robinson: S7.4
	Keyblock print for the above design. I am grateful to Paul Steier for this image.
	Scene: Minamoto no Ushiwaka Maru (源牛若丸) and Musashi-bô Benkei (武英猛勇鏡) on Gojô Bridge (五条橋) with bats and a full moon Robinson: S7.5

“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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