Warrior triptychs
1849-1852, Part II
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Title: Untitled Description: Takeshiuchi no Sukune (武内宿称) on his ship
heading for Korea Publisher: Ise-ya Tsurujirô Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T234 |
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Title: Untitled
diptych Description: Chinzei Hachirô Tametomo (鎮西八郎為朝) receiving a
deputation of toys (owl, dog, Daruma, etc.) on the sea-shore Publisher: Yorozu-ya Kichibei Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T235 NOTE: Chinzei Hachirô Tametomo is better
known as Minamoto no Tametomo (源 為朝). |
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Title: Untitled
diptych Description: Chinzei Hachirô Tametomo (鎮西八郎為朝), in full
armor and carrying his bow, meets the hôsôgami (疱瘡神) on the
sea-shore Publisher: Ise-ya Chûsuke Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T236 NOTE: Chinzei Hachirô Tametomo is better
known as Minamoto no Tametomo (源 為朝), and the
demons of smallpox are known as hôsôgami. |
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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, 熊坂長範物見之松圖) 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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Description: Yamaki Kanetaka leading the defense of his palace against
Minamoto no Yoritomo’s night attack in 1180 Publisher: Date: 1849-1852 Robinson: T239 |
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Title: Jô Shirô Nagamochi
of Echigo Province, About to Go to War for the
Taira, Sees an Apparition in the Sky (Echigo no kuni no jûnin Jô Shirô Nagamochi
Heike no saisoku ni shitagai shutsujin nasu ori kara kûchû ni kaii
o miru zu, 越後国の住人城四郎長茂平家のさいそくにしたがい出陣なす折から空中に怪異を見る圖) 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: The Quarrel
about Reversed Oars at Daimotsu Bay (Daimotsu-no-ura sakaro ron no zu, 大物浦逆櫓論之圖) 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’s Ship Attacked by Ghosts of the Taira Warriors at Daimotsu Bay (Minamoto
no Yoshitsune Miyako wo uchitachi
Saikoku e, 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 (新田左中将義貞…) 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 Victory over Yorishige Suwa’s
Camp (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圖) 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: The Battle of
Kawanakajima (Shinshû Kawanakajima kassen
no zu,
信州川中嶋合戦之圖) 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: First Act of
The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Kanadehon
Chûshingura: daijô, 仮名手本忠臣蔵, 大序) 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: Second Act of
The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Kanadehon
Chûshingura…, 仮名手本忠臣蔵…) 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: The Loyal
Retainers in Their Night Attack Burst into the Enemy Mansion (Gishi yo-uchi midare-iri no zu, 義士夜討乱入之圖) 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: Vengeance at
Iga Pass (Igagoe kataki-uchi no zu, 伊賀越敵討圖) 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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Text: 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 (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, 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: Sanada no Yoichi
Yoshihisa and Matano no Gorô Kagehisa (Sanada
no Yoichi Yoshihisa, Matano no Gorô Kagehisa, 真田与市能久 俣野五郎景久) 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: Revenge at
the Crossroads of Gappô (Katakiuchi Gappô ga tsuji,
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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