Warrior triptychs
1836-1838
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Title: Higo no kuni Mizumata no kaijô nite
Tametomo nampû chii etc. (肥後の国水俣の海上にて為朝難風に遭ふ...) Description: Tarnetomo’s
ship wrecked in a storm by a dragon in the clouds and a great fish with tengu flying to the rescue Publisher:
Fujioka-ya Keijirô Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T30 |
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Title:
Untitled Description:
Asahina Saburô on the seashore with a group of strange inhabitants of foreign
lands Publisher:
Maru-ya Seijirô Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T31 |
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Title: Yoshitsune no kenin ikki-tosen no niju-ikki
no zu (Yoshitsune and his twenty
one retainers on a ship, 義経之家人一騎当千廾一騎之図) Description:
Yoshitsune and his nineteen chief retainers in a ship Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T32 NOTE: This
triptych is very similar to T82c an to T319. |
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Title: Miyamoto Musashi Shirakura ka dokushu no
etc. (宮本無三四白倉毒手…) Description: Miyamoto Musashi
bursting out of the bathhouse, to the consternation of Shirakura Gengoemon,
his wife, and followers, who had intended to boil him alive there Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T33 NOTE: The
signature reads ‘Chô-ô-rô Kuniyoshi ga’. |
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Title: Kusunoki Masashige no shin Tsujikaze
Itamochi no ryô-yûshi Fujiidera no kassen ni Kazu-uji wo ikedokoro zu (楠正成の臣辻風板持の両勇士葛井寺の合戦に員氏を生捕図) Description:
The Battle of Fujiidera in driving
rain: Kazu-uji and Moronao, the Ashikaga generals, seized by the Kusunoki
(1348) Publisher:
Sôshû-ya Yohei Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T34 I am grateful to Marc
DeVriese for this image. |
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Title: Kenkyû yo-nen go-gwatsu nijûhachi-nichi
Fuji no Susono Soga kyôdai yo-uchi hommô no zu Description:
The Soga brothers knocking over foe in the camp enclosure after killing
Suketsune (June 28, 1193) Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T35 |
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Title: Inuzaka Keno Tanetomo Ômori to
Suzu-no-mori no etc. Description:
The three Hakkenden heroes Inuzaka
Keno Tanetomo, Inuda Kobungo and Inukawa Shôsuke Yoshitomo engaged in a
running fight with numerous opponents; Mount Fuji behind Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T36 |
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Title: Nitta Yoshisada Ashikaga Taka-uji ô-kassen Description:
The great battle (probably of Hyogo in 1335) between Nitta
Yoshisada and Ashikaga Taka-uji: a general melee, with Shinozuka Iga no Kami
grappling with Satô Tôtômi no Kami (left) Publisher:
Tsuru-ya Kiemon Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T37 I am grateful to Ward
Pieters for locating this image. |
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Title: Gempei kassen (源平合戦): Settsu Banshû no sakai Naniwa-gata Heike no etc. Description:
Battle on the shore outside the fortified Taira camp at Ichi-no-tani (1184):
Hirayama Sueshige (right), Kumagae Naozane (center), Kumagae Sada-ie and
Etchû Moritsugu (left) Publisher:
Maru-ya Seijirô Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T38 |
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Title: Zushû Ishibashiyama Tobi-no-gake ni
Minamoto no Yoritomo seijû shichi-ki gaboku no naka ni kakure zu (On Kite
Cliff at Ishibashiyama in Izu Province, Minamoto Yoritomo and His Seven
Followers Hide in a Hollow Tree, 豆州石橋山鳶之崖 ニ源頼朝主従七騎 臥木之中ニ隠ル図) Description:
The Battle of Ishibashiyama (1180) in the rain, showing Yoritomo and his
seven companions hiding in the hollow tree, and the combat of Kagehisa with
Yoshisada Publisher:
Ise-ya Rihei (listed as Ebi-ya Rinnosuke in Robinson) Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T39 |
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I am grateful to Marc
DeVriese for this alternate state of the above design. |
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Title: Akasaka no shuku nite Ushiwaka Maru gôtô
wo kiru Description:
Ushiwaka fighting Chôhan and his gang at the post station Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date:
c.1836 Robinson:
T40 |
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Another state of the above
design with black sky courtesy of Marc DeVriese |
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Title: Hakkenden no uchi: Hôryûkaku (Horyu
tower from Tale of Eight Dogs, 八犬傳之内法流閣) Description:
Inuzuka Shino at bay on the Hôryûkaku roof against Inukai Kempachi and his
men, a favorite episode from the Hakkenden
Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: c.
1836-1837 Robinson:
T41 |
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Title: Iga Kozuke adauchi no zu (伊賀上野仇討ち圖, Revenge at Kozuke in Iga) Description:
A battle on a plain outside a castle. Sakuragi Rinzaemon fleeing on horseback
(left), his followers chased by Karaki Masaemon (right), while others are engaged
by Ishidome Busuke (right); in the background are Ubudai Rekishiro (left)
racing to the assistance of Ikezoe Magohachi (centre) who is engaged with
Azumaki Kurobei, and Sawai Matagoro with Wada Shizuma Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: c.
1836-1837 Robinson:
T41a (not in Robinson) |
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Title: Inuyama Dôsetsu Tadatomo shujin Orima-uji
no kataki isoko no etc. Description:
Battle from the Hakkenden with a
burning castle in the distance; Inukai Kempachi and Inumura Daikaku in white
coats; Inuyama Dôsetsu and Inuzuka Shino in armor Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: c.
1836-1837 Robinson:
T42 |
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Title: Description:
The battle of Kurikaradani (1183) by moonlight: Tomoe-gozen heaving a rock
upon foemen clinging to a steep bank (left), Kiso Yoshinaka grappled with
Mikawa no Kami Tomonori (center), and warriors fighting on a road (right) Publisher:
No seal Date: c.
1837-1838 Robinson:
T43 |
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Another state of the above
design |
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Title: Minamoto no Raikô jôraku Sagami no kuni
Ashigarayama ni etc. Description:
Genji Tsuna watches Kwaidô Maru knocking a bear cub over a precipice; the
latter’s mother Yama-uba (left) is also present Publisher:
Fujioka-ya Hikotarô Date: c.
1837-1838 Robinson:
T44 |
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I am grateful to Marc
DeVriese for this alternate state of the above design. |
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Title: Udaishô Yoritomo-kô Heike tsuitô to shite
Kama no Kanja Noriyo Description:
Reception of Yoshitsune and Noriyori by Yoritomo and his assembled nobles
after their victory over the Taira Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: c.
1837-1838 Robinson:
T45 I am grateful to Marc
DeVriese for this image. |
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Another state of the above
design without shading (bokashi) in
the water on the folding screen |
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Title: The Earth
Spider Slain by Raikô's Retainers (Minamoto
no Yorimitsu no Shitennô tsuchigumo taiji no zu, 源頼光の四天王土蜘退治之図) Description:
Raikô’s retainers about to kill the Earth-Spider in the midst of its web Publisher:
Maru-ya Seijirô Date: c.
1838 Robinson:
T46 |
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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.
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