Stories of Remarkable Persons of Loyalty and High Reputation,

Part II

(Chûkô meiyo kijin den, 忠孝名誉奇人傳)

1845

	Scene: Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵) with two wooden swords, fencing with the old Master Tsukahara Bokuden who is using two wooden pot lids Robinson: S35.8 Publisher: Ise-ya Ichibei
	A keyblock print of Miyamoto Musashi and Tsukahara Bokuden
	Scene: Oguri Hangwan Ujishige (小栗判官氏重) attended by Terute-hime and holding a vicious horse Robinson: S35.9 Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei
	Scene: Ono no Tôfû (小野道風, Michikaze) learning perseverance from a frog climbing a willow branch Robinson: S35.10 Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei
	Scene: Settsu no Zenji (Hirai) Yasumasa (摂津前司保昌) playing a flute on a moonlit night while the robber Hakamadare Yasusuke approaches Robinson: S35.11 Text: 古今の笛の名人なり　ある時月にうかれて笛ふきてありきけるに其頃名高き盗人袴だれ保輔といふもの衣服をはがんとつけねらへども其勇気におそれて十余町か間したがひ行にすこしもすきなくつひに保昌家にともな… Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei
	Another state of the above design
	Scene: Shidzuka-gozen (静御前) as a shirabyoshi dancing on a veranda Robinson: S35.12 Text: 静御前磯の禅師が子容貌美麗の白拍子なり男舞の名人と聞えし義経の妾となり義経奥州へ下る時吉野にて捕ハれ後鎌倉へくだり頼朝のまへにて貞心をあらハす 揃い物の一枚 Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei
	A greatly simplified state of the above design
	Scene: The poetess Shûshiki (秋色) wearing her father’s overcoat in the rain Robinson: S35.13 Publisher: Ise-ya Ichibei
	Scene: Sugimoto Sakubei (杉本作兵衛), a retainer of Kusunoki, weeping before the latter’s son, Masatsura Robinson: S35.14 Publisher: Ise-ya Ichibei
	Another state with grey replacing purple
	Scene: Chinzei Hachirô Tametomo (鎮西八郎爲朝) with a large improvised bow talking to a fisher-girl while exiled in Ôshima Robinson: S35.15 Text: 為義の八男八郎と号す　身の丈七尺五寸古今無双の強弓にて智勇双ぶものなし　保元の乱に崇徳院の味方に属して大功あり　然ども軍破れて後江州にて生捕れ伊豆の国へなかさる　大島に有てしま／ﾞ＼を押領し我意… Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei
	Another state of the above design
	Scene: Yamamoto Kansuke (山本勘助) overcoming a giant boar in the snow Robinson: S35.16 Publisher: Ise-ya Ichibei
	Scene: Princess Chujo (Chûjô-hime, 中将姫) seated watching a rainbow with a spinning wheel forming a halo behind her head Robinson: S35.17 Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei
	Scene: Shijô Dainagon (四条大納言) on the rail of a veranda with a ball above him and a flight of wild geese Robinson: S35.18 Text: 好で鞠を蹴させ給ひ雨降る日は御殿で遊し七千日懈怠なくけられしとかや　其裡にも清水のふたいの高欄ニ沓をはきて悠然とまりを蹴て東西へ度々わたり給ひけるは誠ニ蝶鳥の飛かふよりもかるし　見る人胆をひやし… Publisher: Enshû-ya Matabei I am grateful to Jesper Heine Jensen for this image.
	Another state of the above design

“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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