Individual Warrior Prints, Part III
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Scene: Watônai Sankwan overcoming a
tiger under a pine tree Publisher:
Sano-ya Kihei Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.1 Image courtesy of Nora Deaver |
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Scene: Nikki
Gennosuke in rain with his foot on one of two
beasts seeing the apparition of a dead man behind a tree Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.2 |
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Scene: Kamada Matahachi killing a
monstrous cat in the mountains of Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.3 |
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Scene: Keyamura Rokusuke struggling
with three kappa on a riverbank
with another swimming in the river Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.4 NOTE: Kappa are amphibious goblins with the
body of a tortoise, the limbs of a frog and the head of a monkey |
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Scene: Satô Shirô Tadanobu wearing Yoshitsune’s armor in snow on the balcony of the pagoda
of Publisher:
? Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.5 |
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Scene: Yendô Musha Moritô
holding up Kesa-gozen’s severed head in the
moonlight among falling maple leaves Publisher:
Sôshû-ya Yohei Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.6 |
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Scene: Kashiwade no Hanoshi in full
armor glaring down at a tiger that clings to the edge of a snowy precipice Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.7 |
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This final drawing (hanshita-e) for an unpublished print of Kashiwade no Hanoshi in full
armor glaring down at a tiger in the snow dates from about 1834. |
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Scene: Tomoye-gozen struggleing with Musashi Saburozayemon Arikuni on a rock by a waterfall Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.8 I am grateful to Ward Pieters
for locating this image. |
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Scene: Hako-ô Maru (Soga Gorô in boyhood) reading a scroll by a waterfall Publisher:
Yebi-Ne Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.9 |
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Scene: Usui Sadamitsu holding a wooden
beam while treading on a wolf Publisher:
Yebi-Ne Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.10 |
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Scene: Kwaidô Maru overcoming a wild
boar with a huge axe. The background
is plane and there is a poem above Kwaidô Maru. Publisher:
Jôshû-ya Kinzô Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.11 NOTE: This
is an example of an aka-e (red print) which was said to
protect from smallpox. |
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Scene:
Taira no Tadamori (foreground) and the oil thief
(left) Publisher:
Sôshû-ya Yohei Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.12 |
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Scene: Momotarô with a monkey, a pheasant, ‘the precious things’
and a dog offering him sake Publisher:
? Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.13 |
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Scene: Mongaku Shônin under the
waterfall Publisher:
Maru-ya Seijirô Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.14 |
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Scene: Chinzei Hachirô Tametomo
grasping bow and arrows looks up at Raiden (the
thunder god) in a cloud Publisher:
Sôshû-ya Yohei Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.15 |
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Scene: Ushiwaka Maru (Yoshitsune)
fencing with two tengu by moonlight Publisher:
Yebi-Ne Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S1e.16 NOTE: Tengu are forest-dwelling creatures
that are either human-like with wings and long noses or bird-like. |
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Scene:
Sakata Kwaidô Maru by a
waterfall lifting one bear aloft and trampling another Publisher:
? Date: c. 1840 Robinson: S1e.17 |
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Scene: Gama Sennin surrounded by frogs Publisher:
? Date: c.
1840-1841 Robinson:
unlisted |
‘Robinson’ refers to listing in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its unpublished supplement.
