Comparisons of True Courage

(Shin-yû kurabe)

Publisher: Mikawa-ya Tetsugorô

1845 and 1855

The prints in this series are approximately 20 by 8 inches (50 by 20 centimeters), a size known either as nagaban or as chôban.

 

Scene: Benkei dragging the huge bell of Miidera Temple up a mountain

Date: 1845

Robinson: S49.1

 

Scene: Kiyo-hime starting to change into a dragon beneath the bell of Dôjôji

Date: 1855

Robinson: S49.2

 

NOTE: This print is unsigned.

 

Scene: Hachirô Tametomo in exile on the rocky shore of Ôshima at sunrise

Date: 1845

Robinson: S49.3

 

Scene: Taira no Tomomori at the bottom of the sea with the great anchor and a sea dragon

Date: 1855

Robinson: S49.4

‘Robinson’ refers to listing in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its unpublished supplement.

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