Warrior triptychs
1832-1835
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Title: Yamashiro no kuni
Kasagi ishi-ie
kassen no zu (The Battle of Kasagi
Castle in Yamashiro Province, 山城之国笠城之石家合戦之図) Description: Defence of Publisher: Tsuru-ya Kiemon Date: c. 1832 Robinson: T19 |
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I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this alternate state of the above design. |
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Title: Kuramayama no zu (Picture of Mount Kurama,
鞍馬山之図) Description: Ushiwaka Maru practicing fencing with the tengu under the
direction of Sôjô-bô with Kisanda
in attendance Publisher: Ômi-ya Heihachi (listed as Yezaki-ya Tatsuzô in Robinson) Date: c. 1832 Robinson: T20 |
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Title: Ôeyama Shuten-dôji shûzui no zu (The Drinking
Party of the Shutendôji at Mount Ôe, 大江山酒天童子酒宴之図) Description: The drinking
bout of Raikô and his retainers with the Shuten-dôji in the latter’s palace on Publisher: Daikoku-ya Heikichi Date: c. 1832 Robinson: T21 |
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Title: Nitta Ashikaga ô-watashi
ô-kassen Description: Nitta Yoshisada and his troops swimming across a river
(probably the Iruma River) by a broken bridge to
attack a fortified position on the opposite bank Publisher: Sôshû-ya Yohei Date: c.1832 Robinson: T22 |
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Title: Description: Sasaki Takatsuna (佐々木 高綱) and Kajiwara Kagetoki (梶原 景時) leading
troops at the battle of Publisher: Date: c.1832 Robinson: T22a (not in
Robinson) I am grateful to Vana Johnson for this image. |
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Title: Gyakushin Masakado wa Rokurô
Kintsura ga isame no
etc. Description: Musashi Gorô Sadayo striking Rokurô Kintsura with his fan before the latter’s brother Masakado Publisher: Akamatsu-ya Shôtarô Date: c. 1833-1834 Robinson: T23 |
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I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this
alternate state of the above design. |
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This is an altered version of the above triptych to depict a
scene from an 1834 production of the kabuki
play Tokiwa Ima Shusse no Ukesho (時今出世券). The actors from left to right are Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Takechi Mitsuhide, Iwai Hanshirô VI as Ranmaru, and Sawamura Tosshô I as Harunaga. Date: 9th
month of 1834 Theater: Morita Publisher: Akamatsu-ya Shôtarô |
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Title: Shimotsuke no kuni Nasu no hara kimmô hakumen kyûbi no akko taiji no
zu Description: The
Nine-tailed Fox slain on Nasu moor by Miura-no-suke Tsunetane and Kazusa no Suke Hirotsune Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: c. 1834 Robinson: T24 I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this
image. |
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Title: Yoshinaka hata-age
kassen no zu Description: The first
battle at the erecting of Yoshinaka’s standard in Shinano
(1180): Jô Shirô Nagamochi on horseback (left) cutting at Tayû-bô Kakumei (center), and
Tomoe-gozen killing Kurotsuka
Hachirô (right) Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi Date: c. 1834 Robinson: T25 NOTE: This triptych
was reissued in 1845 with numerous alterations as T160. The title was changed to Takeda Uesugi Kawanakajima ô-kassen no zu, Nagamochi became Uesugi Kenshin, Tayû-bô became Takeda Shingen
and the right hand sheet blocks were recut to eliminate Tomoe-gozen. I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Title: Engen gwan-nen
go-gwatsu nijûgo-nichi Minatogawa ô-kassen (Great Battle of the Minato River on the
25th Day of the Fifth Month, 1336, 延元元年五月二十五日湊川大合戦) Description: The battle of
the Minatogawa on Publisher: Tsuru-ya Kiemon Date: c. 1834 Robinson: T26 I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this
image. |
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Title: Untitled Description: Raikô cutting off the head of the monster Shuten Dôji, which springs in
the air. Raikô’s
five chief retainers (shitennô)
are shown, left to right, Usui Sadamitsu, Sakata no
Kintoki, Hirai Yasumasa, Urabe Suetake,
and Genji Tsuna (killing a demon) Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei Date: c.1835 Robinson: T26a NOTE: This triptych is listed in the privately
published supplement to Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil
William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982). |
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Title: Kanshin mata-kuguri no zu (韓信骻潜之圖, The Humility
of Kanshin) Description: Kanshin crawling between the legs of a fisherman, to the
amusement of the latter’s companions Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei Date: c. 1835 Robinson: T27 |
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Another state of the above design |
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A later printing, c. 1843, with the seal of the censor, Tanaka |
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Title: Sanada no Yoichi Yoshihisa, Matano no Gorô Kagehisa (真田与市能久 俣野五郎景久, Sanada no Yoichi Yoshihisa and Matano no Gorô
Kagehisa) Description: Struggle
between Yoshihisa and Kagehisa at the Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: 1846-1852 Robinson: T28 NOTE: The name “Yoshihisa”
was erroneously substituted for “Yoshitada”. Although Robinson dates this triptych as c.
1835, the signature and the existence of another state with the seals of the
censors Fuku and Muramatsu, indicate a date of 1849-1851. |
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Title: Igagoe kataki-uchi no zu (The Igagoe Revenge, 伊賀越敵討図) Description: Karaki Masaemon (center)
fighting against superior forces; Busuke and Magohachi defending a bridge (right); spectators in the
background Publisher: Yamashiro-ya Jinbei (山甚板) Date: c.1835 Robinson: T29 NOTE: Kuniyoshi’s
signature, the censor’s seal, and the publisher’s seal are on the wooden post
in the left sheet. |
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This triptych differs from the previous state in that the
publisher’s seal (best seen on the wooden post in the left sheet) is that of Sôshû-ya Yohei (近總與) instead of
Yamashiro-ya Jinbei (山甚板). |
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I am grateful to Robert Pryor for these keyblock
prints for two sheets from the above triptych. |
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Title: Description: Ise no Kami Yoshitsune
(伊後守義経) and his
retainer Kumai Tarô (熊井 太郎) preparing to
defend Horikawa Palace against the attack of Tosa-bô
Shôshun (土佐坊昌俊) and his men,
who are seen approaching in the background. Publisher: not indicated
on the one sheet seen by Robinson Date: c.1835 Robinson: T29a NOTE: This is the
right-hand sheet of a triptych |
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