A Hundred Heroic Stories

(Eiyû ippyaku den)

Publisher: Fujioka-ya Keijirô

c. 1851

This is listed as a series, in deference to Robinson’s precedent, even though only a single design is known. The print is about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

Scene: Tomoye-gozen standing with a robe over armor and holding a naginata Robinson: S69.1

“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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