Warrior triptychs
1849-1852, Part II
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Title: Untitled Description: Takeshiuchi-no-sukune on his ship heading for Publisher: Ise-ya Tsurujirô Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T234 |
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Title: Untitled
diptych Description: Tametomo receiving a deputation of toys (owl, dog,
Daruma, etc.) on the sea-shore Publisher: Yorozu-ya Kichibei Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T235 NOTE: In this diptych, Tametomo
is called Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo
Hosogami (鎮西八郎為朝). |
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Title: Untitled
diptych Description: Tametomo, in full armor and carrying his bow, meets the Hosogami, or gods of the smallpox, on the sea-shore Publisher: Ise-ya Chûsuke Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T236 NOTE: In this diptych, Tametomo
is called Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo
Hosogami (鎮西八郎源為朝). |
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Title: Untitled Description: Tametomo in his island kingdom, seated on a rock,
watching native women picking fruit and diving for awabi Publisher: Chû Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T237 |
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Title: At the
Lookout in a Pine Tree with Kumasaka Chohan and His Gang (Kumasaka Chôhan mono-mi no matsu no zu, 熊坂長範物見之松図) Description: Kumasaka Chôhan and his gang round a camp-fire under their
“look-out” pine tree Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T238 |
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Another state of the above design |
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Title: Minamoto no Yoritomo Yamaki no tachi e yo-uchi no zu Description: Yamaki Kanetaka leading the defense of his palace against
Yoritomo’s night attack in 1180 Publisher: Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T239 |
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Title: Echigo no kuni no jûnin Jô Shirô
Nagamochi Heike no saisoku
ni shitagai shutsujin nasu ori kara kûchû ni kaii o miru
zu Description: Jô Shirô Nagamochi,
about to go to war in the Taira cause, sees an apparition of the thunder god
on the seashore Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T240 |
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I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image of a later
printing of the above triptych. Note
the water and the solid colored cartouche in the right upper corner. |
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Title: Daimotsu-no-ura sakaro ron no zu (The
Quarrel about Reversed Oars at Daimotsu Bay, 大物浦逆櫓論之図,) Description: The quarrel
about reversed oars between Yoshitsune and Kajiwara
Kagetoki before the Battle of Yashima ( Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T241 I am grateful to Marc DeVriese for this
image. |
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Another state of the above design. This is a daylight scene, and note the
water on the left sheet. |
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Title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Miyako wo uchitachi Saikoku
e (Yoshitsune’s Ship Attacked by Ghosts of the
Taira Warriors at Daimotsu Bay, 大物浦平家の亡霊) Description: The Taira
ghosts, silhouetted against the sky, attacking Yoshitsune’s
ship amid mountainous waves Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei Date: 1849-1851
(censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Robinson: T242 |
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Another state of the above design |
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Title: The Battle of
Hyôgo (Taiheiki Hyôgo kassen,
太平記兵庫合戦) Description. Shirafuji Hikoshichirô
ransacking the sacred books before the horrified monks in Fukukaiji
Monastery, with mural of the sixteen Rakan behind Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T243 |
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Title: Nitta Chûjô Yoshisada Sesshû Minatogawa shutsujin no zu nari Description: The departure
parade of Yoshisada’s troops before the Publisher: Kagi-ya Hanjirô Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T244 NOTE: This triptych
is an adaptation of T116 with the head of Tomoe-gozen recut as Wakiya
Yoshisuke, while Yoshinaka has become Yoshisada and
Yamabuki-gozen has become Kôtô-no-naishi. |
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Title: Battle in the
Wars of the Taiheiki (Taiheiki kassen no zu,
太平記合戦之圖) Description: A battle in
the Wars of the Taiheiki: a mounted warrior pitches
another over an embankment, and a mounted archer shoots at a cavalier who
catches the arrows on his spear Publisher: 尾 under a double
mountain, read as “Wo” or as “O” Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T245 |
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Another state of the above design published by
Nôshû-ya Yasubei
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Title: Takeda Shingen Suwa
Yorishige no jinchû wo uchi-kuzusu zu (武田信玄諏訪頼重の陣中を打くづす図) Description: Takeda
Shingen directing the discharge of a large cannon across a river, blowing up
part of the fortified camp of Suwa Yorishige in 1540 Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T246 NOTE: Gunpowder was
actually introduced into |
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Title: Shinshû Kawanakajima kassen no zu (信州川中嶋合戦之圖, Battle of Kawanakajima) Description: The prowess
of Yamamoto Kansuke at the Battle of Kawanakajima Publisher: Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T247 |
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A later and greatly simplified printing of the above design |
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Title: Kanadehon Chûshingura: daijô Description: First act of
the Chûshingura: The departure of the Imperial envoy (left), with Moronao, Enya, Lady Kaoyo and
nobles on a terrace (right). The
quarrel between Enya Hankan Takasada
and Musashi no kami Ko no Moronao in right
panel. Publisher: Ebi-ya Rinnosuke Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T248 |
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Title: Kanadehon Chûshingura Description: Act two of
the kabuki play Kanadehon Chûshingura: Kakogawa Honzô before Momonoi Wakasa no
Suke with Tonase listening behind a screen and
Rikiya approaching along the veranda in the background Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T248a I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Title: Gishi yo-uchi midare-iri no zu Description: The night
attack of the Forty-Seven Ronin: the fight in the garden, and the defense of Moronao’s hiding place Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T249 This triptych may be placed side-by-side with triptych T286 to
form a six sheet composition
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Title: Igagoe kataki-uchi no zu
(Vengeance at Iga Pass, 伊賀越敵討図) Description: The Igagoe revenge: This story is told under the title of
“Kazuma’s Revenge”. The principal characters shown in the prints are on the
right, Watanabe Shizuma and the two faithful retainers Ishida Busuke and Ikezoe Magohachi; in the center the swordsman Karaki Mataemon, with Sakurai Rinzaemon
on the horse; and on the left mounted, Sakurai Rinzo
and the villain, Kawai Matagoro Publisher: Hayashi-ya Shôgorô Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T250 I am grateful to Vladislav Ruchkin for this image. |
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Title: Meishô Kyûshû yori jôraku no toki Buzen no kuni Dairi no oki Manaitagase ni te nanpû ni
deai sendô Yojibei o kiri shigai o umi ni nagekomi shi
yori irai Yojibei-nada to iu (When the Great General Was on the Way to
Kyoto from Kyushu He Encountered a Storm at Manaitagase
in Dairi Bay in Buzen Province; the Sailor Yojibei Was Killed and His Body Thrown into the Sea, and
Since Then the Place is Called the Yojibei Channel,
名将九州より上洛のとき豊前国（ぶぜんのくに）内裏の沖俎板ヶ瀬にて難風に出会ひ船頭与次兵衛を切（きり）死骸を海に投込（なげこみ）しより以来与次兵衛灘といふ) Description: Story of the
ship’s captain Yojibei: a nobleman leaping from a
ship to a rock in a storm Publisher: Mikawa-ya Tetsugorô Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T251 |
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Title: Cast of the
Legend of the Eight Dogs of Satomi (Satomi Hakkenden
ichiran, 里見八犬伝一覧) Description: Various
scenes from the novel Nansô Satomi Hakkenden (The Biography of Nansô
Satomi and the Eight Dog Warriors) Publisher: Enshû-ya Hikobei Date: 1849-1852
(censors Hama and Magome) Robinson: T251a (not in
Robinson) I am grateful to Robert Pryor for information
about this triptych. |
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Another state of the above design with a red
title cartouche |
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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 seals of the censors Fuku and Muramatsu, indicate
a date of 1849-1851. |
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Title: Taira
Tadanori of Satsuma Grappling with Okabe Tadazumi
at the Battle of Ichi-no-tani (Satsuma kami
Taira Tadanori sha Ichi-no-tani o sen ba ni
Okabe Tadazumi kumiuchi
no zu, 薩摩守平忠度者 一之谷於戰場二岡部忠澄 組討之圖) Description: Publisher: No seal Date: c. 1849-1852 Robinson: Not listed NOTE: I am grateful to Robert Pryor for
this drawing, which may have been a preparatory drawing for the preceding
triptych. |
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Title: Katakiuchi Gappô ga tsuji (Revenge at the Crossroads of Gappô, 報讐合法辻) Description: Saeda Daigaku (早枝大學, left sheet) and others attacking shugyôsha Gappô (修行者合法, center sheet), who is standing on a statue
of Enma Publisher: Echizen-ya Kajû Date: c. 1850
(censor’s seal is 3rd month of 1863) Robinson: Not listed NOTE: This triptych relates to a scene in the kabuki
play Ehon Gappô-ga-tsuji (An Illustrated Picture Book of the Crossroads
of Gappô, 繪本合法衢),
which is a dramatization of the then popular revenge novel, Gappô-ga-tsuji
(The Crossroads of Gappô). I am grateful to Robert Pryor for
information about this triptych. |
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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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