Miscellaneous Warrior Prints
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Format: Chûban tetraptych Title: The great
battle of Kawanakajima (Kawanakajima ô-kassen) Description: Double
portrait of Takeda Daizen no daibu Harunobu Nyûdô Shingen (武田太膳太夫晴信入道信玄) with Buddhist
prayer-beads and war-fan (right) and Uyesugi Danjô
no taihitsu Terutora Nyûdô Kenshin (上杉弾正大弼輝虎入道謙信) with large
bamboo staff (left), both seated in armor under their respective
banners. Above is a long account of
the campaign. Publisher: Murata-ya Tetsu Date: c. 1845 Robinson: S95f.1 Image courtesy of John Lord |
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Format: 62 x 72 centimeter sheet Title: Sugoroku of the Suikoden Heroes (Suikoden gôketsu
sugoroku,
三国興立功双六) Description: A large
single sheet of the heroes of the Suikoden, adapted to the game of sugoroku, in
which dice were thrown to determine rate of progress from one section to
another. Title in large script, upper right; central panel of Kohôgi Sôkô enthroned,
presiding over a meeting of six principal heroes round a table, and
surrounded by all the others, each in a named and numbered compartment. Publishers: Tsuru-ya
Kiyemon, Sano-ya Kihei,
Kaga-ya Kichiyemon and
Nishimura-ya Yohachi Date: 1855 Robinson: S95f.2 Many similar prints may be found in the
sugoroku section.
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Format: Ôban harimaze
print Description: A harimaze
print is one that consists of several unrelated images on a single sheet of
paper. The left-hand portion is a chûtanzakuban
showing Inudzuka Shino on the crest of the Hôryûkaku roof looking down upon Inukai Kempachi with geese flying below a full moon. The other two designs are a blowfish by
Hiroshige and Joriken (Shôriken)
crossing the sea on a sword by Kunisada (signed Hanabusa Itchô
ga). Publisher: Tama-ya Sôsuke Date: 1858 Robinson: S95f.3 NOTE: Many similar
prints may be found in the miscellaneous
harimaze
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Format: Ôban Title: Engraving of Yoshitsune’s heroes (Yoshitsune eiyû roku, 義経英雄勤) Description: A group of
twenty-three figures in all, on plain blue ground, with Yoshitsune
himself at the top and Benkei at the bottom, all in armor except Shidzuka-gozen who holds a naginata Publisher: Echizen-ya Heisaburô (越前屋平三郎 幕末) Date: c. 1840 Robinson: S95f.4 |
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Format: Ôban Title: Engraving of
Heike’s Heroes (Heike eiyû roku, 平家英雄勤) Description: Taira no Shigemori (on top) and the chief heroes of the Taira Clan Publisher: Echizen-ya Heisaburô (越前屋平三郎 幕末) Date: c. 1840 Robinson: S95f.4a |
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Format: Ôban Title: Engraving of
Kusunoki’s Heroes (Kusunoki eiyû roku, 樟英雄勤) Description: Heroes of
Takeda Shingen’s team, Uesugi Kenshin’s team, Kiso’s team, Yoshitsune’s team
and Heike’s team Publisher: Echizen-ya Heisaburô (越前屋平三郎 幕末) Date: c. 1840 Robinson: S95f.4b |
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Another state
of the above design |
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Format: Ôban Title: Heroes of
Takeda Shingen’s Team (Koshu eiyu roku, 甲玄英雄勤) Description: The main
figure at top center is labeled “Kai Takeda Shingen ko”, indicating that the
print depicts Takeda Daizen-no-daibu Harunobu Nyudo Shingen with his retainers Publisher: Echizen-ya Heisaburô (越前屋平三郎 幕末) Date: c. 1840 Robinson: Not listed NOTE: Kai, also known as Koshu,
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Format: Ôban Title: Uesugi
Kenshin’s Team (Echigo eiyu roku, 越後英雄勤) Description: Uesugi
Danjô-no-taihitsu Terutora
Nyûdô Kenshin with large bamboo staff and his
retainers Publisher: Echizen-ya Heisaburô (越前屋平三郎 幕末) Date: c. 1840 Robinson: unlisted NOTE: Echigo was the region ruled by Uesugi. I am grateful to Yasu Takano for the above
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Format: Ôban Title: Kiso’s Team (木曽英雄勤) Description: Kiso and his
retainers Publisher: Echizen-ya Heisaburô (越前屋平三郎 幕末) Date: c. 1840 Robinson: unlisted |
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Warriors
from left: Yamagata Saburohei Masakage (山縣三郎兵衛昌景), Takeda
Sama-no-suke Nobushige (武田佐馬介源信繁), Takeda Hosshô-in Harunobu Nyûdô
Shingen (武田晴信入道信玄), Yamamoto Kansuke Haruyuki Nyûdô Dôkisai (山本勘助入道道鬼蔡晴幸), and Kosaka
Danjô-no-jô Masanobu (高坂 弾正定 昌信) Format: Ôban polyptych Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shôshichi Date:
c. 1845 NOTE:
Each panel represents a seated champion on the Takeda side in the
Kawanakajima campaign with biographical text above by Shôtei Kinsui. The top of each print is shaded off with
Takeda mon reserved. Three of these
panels are listed as S95f.5. I am
grateful to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Panels
from another state of the above polyptych without the green ground, also
published by Ebisu-ya Shôshichi |
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Another state of the preceding polyptych with purple
shading on top published by Miyakozawa (seal name Tôzawa, 都沢) |
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Warrior: Shinchûnagon Taira no Tomomori
(新中納言平知盛) standing in
court robes over armor grasping a naginata
(pole arm) Format: Ôban Publisher: Ôsada NOTE: This print, and the following three prints, are simplified editions
of prints in the series
Thirty-six
Hero-poets (Eiyû sanjûrokkasen,
英雄 三十六歌仙) |
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Warrior: Gen Sammi Yorimasa (源三位賴政) seated on a
palace balcony in court robes over armor shielding his pace with his sleeve Format: Ôban Publisher: Ôsada NOTE: This print is a simplified edition of a print in the series Thirty-six
Hero-poets (Eiyû sanjûrokkasen,
英雄 三十六歌仙) |
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Title: Picture of Uesugi Kenshin (Uesugi Kenshin no zô, 上杉謙信之像) Format: Ôban Publisher: Yorozu-ya Magobie
(萬屋孫兵工板) Text: The son of Nagao Shinano
no kami Tamekage, whose direct lineage was to the
eldest son of Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa,
the 10th generation from the grandson of Taira no Yoshifumi. He was first Nagao Kagetora
and later became Uesugi Terutora, junior 5th
rank. (平の艮文十世え孫, 鎌倉権五郎景政嫡流, 長尾信濃守為景男, 初め長尾景虎後, 上杉輝, 虎と号, 従五位下弾, 正大弼閣東管領, 上杉謙信え像) I am grateful to Alexander Wilson for
this image. |
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Title: Jingô Kôgô (神功皇后) Format: Ôban Publisher: Ôsada NOTE: The empress regent’s name may also be read as Jingû-kôgô. |
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Format: Horizontal ôtanzakuban
(about 6.5 by 14 inches or 17 by 36 centimeters) Description: The great
hunting-party of Yoritomo on the moor below Publisher: Kaga-ya Kichiyemon Date: c. 1830 Robinson: S95f.6 Image courtesy of John Rose and Auction Ukiyo-e |
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Format: Horizontal ôtanzakuban
(about 6.5 by 14 inches or 17 by 36 centimeters) Description: Gen Sammi Yorimasa (源三位頼政, right)
holding a torch over the fallen nuye, which is about to be dispatched by his squire I no
Hayata Hironao (猪早太廣直, center) with
Watanabe Choshichisho (渡邉丁七唱, left)
watching Publisher: Kaga-ya Kichiemon Date: 1833-1834 Robinson: Not listed NOTE: The Nuye was a beast with the head of a
monkey, the claws of a tiger, the back of a badger and a snake for a
tail. It spent its nights on the roof
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Format: chûban (about 7 by 10 inches or 18 by
25 centimeters) Description: The Hag of
the Lonely House at Adachi-ga-hara (Hitotsuya) with
her young victim and an apparition of the goddess Kannon (left). The scene is depicted as a painting in a
lacquer frame with an inscription dedicating the print to a restaurant
proprietor. Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô Date: 2nd
month of 1855 Robinson: Not listed |
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Title: 清正杳 Format: Nagaban (about
20 by 8 inches or 50 by 20 centimeters) Description: Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正, a vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi) subduing the Korean tiger Publisher: No seal Date: 1848-1852 Robinson: Not listed I am grateful to John Rose and Auction Ukiyo-e Ltd. for this
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Title: The Great Battle of Kawanakajima (Kawanakajima dai kassen, 河中島大合戦) Format: Unknown Description: Takeda
Shingen (武田信玄) and Uesugi
Kenshin (上杉謙信) at the 4th
Battle of Kawanakajima Publisher: Date: Robinson: Not listed I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
image. |
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Title: Format: 16 x 22.5 cm
(probably an incomplete hosoban) Description: Minamoto no Yorimitsu, who is also known as Raikô,
and his men returning in triumph with the monstrous head of the Shuten-dôji Publisher: Yamashiro-ya Sahei Date: c. 1929 Robinson: Not listed I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
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Series: Illustrations of Loyalty and Filial Revenge (忠孝復讐図会) Subject: Gappô ga tsuji (合法) Date: 11th or 12th month of 1852 Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shôshichi I am grateful
to Robert Pryor for this image. |
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Series: Illustrations of Loyalty and Filial Revenge (忠孝復讐図会) Subject: Date: 11th or 12th month of 1852 Publisher: Ebisu-ya Shôshichi I am grateful to Robert Pryor for this
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“Robinson” refers to listing in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its privately published supplement. CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO MAIN
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