The Sixty-nine Post Stations of the
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Station: Yawata Number on print: 25 Main scene:
Ômi no Kotôda and Yawata Saburô in hunting dress
observing the standards of a body of troops moving through a gorge below them
Insert:
rice paddies and a mountain in the mist Publisher:
Hayashi-ya Shôgorô Robinson:
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Station: Mochidzuki Number on print: 26 Main scene:
Kwaidô Maru (Kintoki), attended by a monkey and a white hare,
capturing a small tengu Insert:
wooded hill and mountainside Publisher:
Hayashi-ya Shôgorô Robinson:
S74.27 NOTE: Tengu are forest-dwelling creatures
that are either human-like with wings and long noses or bird-like. |
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Station: Ashida Number on print: 27 Main scene:
The witch Nyogetsu-ni followed by Arai Maru Insert:
village among mountains Publisher:
Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô Robinson:
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Station: Nagakubo Number on print: 28 Main scene:
Kichizô seated on a bench, looks over his right
shoulder at O-Shichi who holds a framed calligraphy
(shôchikubai) signed by herself Insert:
rice paddies, a teahouse and distant hills Publisher:
Tsuji-ya Yasubei Robinson:
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Station:
Wada Number on print: 29 Main scene:
Wada Hyôye in court dress on a bridge defying four
musketeers Insert: rice
paddies and a village among hills Publisher:
Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô Robinson:
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Station: Shimo no Suwa Number on print: 30 Main scene:
Yayegaki-hime dancing with the sacred helmet of Shingen which is revered by the Takeda Clan Insert: a waterfall Publisher:
Yawata-ya Sakujirô Robinson:
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Station: Shiojiri Number on print: 31 Main scene:
Takagi Toranosuke with his wife and children
looking out over the sea with a half submerged whale Insert: road
among pine trees leading towards a mountain Publisher:
Idzutsu-ya Shôkichi Robinson:
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Station: Seba Number on print: 32 Main scene:
Musashi-bô Benkei, having captured Tosa-bô Shôshun in the
night-attack on the Insert:
wooded hills and a band of mist Publisher:
Yawata-ya Sakujirô Robinson:
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Station: Motoyama Number on print: 33 Main scene:
Young court dancer as a Yama-uba (mountain genii) descending on a cloud Insert:
village under a hill with a band of mist Publisher:
Yawata-ya Sakujirô Robinson:
S74.34 |
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Station: Niyekawa Number on print: 34 Main scene:
Takeshiuchi-no-sukune defeating his treacherous
brother Amamiuchi-no-sukune in the ordeal of boiling
water Insert:
three travelers approaching a bridge with a river and mountain behind Publisher:
Kaga-ya Yasubei Robinson:
S74.35 |
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Station: Narai Number on print: 35 Main scene:
Zenkichi taking leave of O-Roku Insert: hilly
landscape with golden mist Publisher:
Minato-ya Kohei Robinson:
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Station: Yabuhara Number on print: 36 Main scene:
Suye Harukata armored and
mounted cuts through a bamboo spear at the battle of Insert: landscape
with travelers, hills and a distant village Publisher:
Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô Robinson:
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Station: Miyanokoshi Number on print: 37 Main scene:
Prince Ôto-no-miya, with an acolyte, reading
scriptures while his murderer, Fuchibe Yoshihiro,
approaches Insert:
pine tree in the mountains Publisher:
Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô Robinson:
S74.38 |
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Station: Number on print: 37 (it should be 38) Main scene:
Urashima Tarô on the shore
under a pine tree with a tortoise, from whose mouth issues a vision of Insert:
road descending between steep wooded hills Publisher:
Idzutsu-ya Shôkichi Robinson:
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Station: Agematsu (read Uyematsu on the
print) Number on print: 39 Main scene:
Yoshitsune's retainer Eda
Genzô in a pine tree near the Hokikawa
Palace watching for the approach of Shôshun’s men Insert:
hilly landscape with village Publisher:
Takada-ya Takejirô Robinson:
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Station: Suwara Number on print: 40 Main scene:
poet Ariwara no Narihira eloping with Nijô-no-tsubone
pursued by men with torches Insert: a
mountain pass Publisher:
Kadzusa-ya Iwazô Robinson:
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Station: Nojiri Number on print: 41 Main scene:
Hirai Yasumasa playing the flute as Hakamadare Yasusuke approaches
with a drawn sword Insert:
mountainous road Publisher:
Idzutsu-ya Shôkichi Robinson:
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Station: Mitono (read as Midono on the
print) Number on print: 42 Main scene:
Mitono Kotarô fighting
off three ruffians on a ruined temple veranda Insert:
village among rice paddies and pine trees Publisher:
Minato-ya Kohei Robinson:
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Station: Tsumago (read as Tsumagome on the print) Number on print: 43 Main scene:
Abe no Yasuna finding his child with an apparition
of its mother, the fox-woman Kuzunoha Insert:
rooftops on a wooded hillside with a mountain behind Publisher:
Minato-ya Kohei Robinson:
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Station: Magome Number on print: 45 (it should be 44) Main scene:
a bearer displaying a universal sign of disrespect to Takebayashi
Sadashichi Insert:
hilly road with a band of pink mist Publisher:
Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô Robinson:
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Station: Ochiai Number on print: 44 (it should be 45) Main scene:
Kume Sennin falls into the water while staring at a
bare bosomed washerwoman Insert:
road descending to a village through wooded hills Publisher:
Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô Robinson:
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Station: Nakatsugawa Number on print: 46 Main scene:
Horibe Yasubei’s aunt and
her daughter in a grove of pine-trees watching him revenge his uncle’s murder Insert:
travelers on a plain among mountains Publisher:
Yawata-ya Sakujirô Robinson:
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Station: Ôi Number on print: 47 Main scene:
robber Ono Sadakurô calling Yoichibei
(a scene from Act V of the kabuki
play ‘Kanadehon chûshingura’) Insert:
traveler leading a horse in front of a teahouse Publisher:
Kaga-ya Yasubei Robinson:
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Station: Ôkute Number on print: 48 Main scene:
a young woman grappling with the Hag of the Lonely House at Adachi-ga-hara with a vision of the goddess Kannon
protecting the former Insert:
wide road at sunset leading towards a mountain Publisher:
Yawata-ya Sakujirô Robinson:
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Station: Hosokute Number on print: 49 Main scene:
Horikoshi Dairei drawing
his sword against the ghost of Asakura Tôgo in a scene from the kabuki play ‘Higashiyama Sakura sôshi’ Insert:
road through a group of pine trees Publisher:
Yawata-ya Sakujirô Robinson:
S74.50 |
‘Robinson’ refers to listing in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its unpublished supplement.
