Warrior triptychs
1836-1838
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Title: Higo no kuni Mizumata no kaijô nite
Tametomo nampû chii (On
the Sea at Mizumata in Higo Province, Tametomo is Shipwrecked in a Storm, 肥後国水俣の海上にて為朝難風に遇う) 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
(Miyamoto Musashi bursting out of the bathhouse, 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 Description:
The Soga brothers knocking over foe in the camp enclosure after killing Suketsune ( 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
(The Great Battle between Nitta Yoshisada and
Ashikaga Takauji, 新田義貞足利尊氏大合戦) 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 |
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Title: Gempei kassen (源平合戦): Settsu Banshû no sakai Naniwa-gata Heike
no etc. Description:
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 (赤坂の宿にて牛若丸斬強盗) 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 Vladislav Shevyrev |
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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:
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
(Reception of Yoshitsune and Noriyori
by Yoritomo and His Assembled Nobles after Their Victory over the Taira, 右大将頼朝公平家追討として蒲冠者範頼源九郎義経両大将にて源氏恩顧の諸軍勢出陣を賀しゐ之図) 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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