Mirror of Military Excellence and Fierce Courage

(Buyei môyû kagami, 武英猛勇鑑)

Publisher: Ise-ya Sanjirô

c. 1836

The prints in this series are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.

	Scene: Hirotsune, the Taira turncoat, and Yukiuji Robinson: S7.1 Image courtesy of Michael Reiss
	This state lacks the publisher’s seal (at the bottom edge). Most likely, this was printed by a second publisher who purchased the woodblocks from Ise-ya Sanjirô.
	Scene: Kintoki and the serpent Robinson: S7.2
	Scene: Gozen Gorô Maru Shigemune seizing Soga Gorô Tokimune Robinson: S7.3
	Scene: Tomoye-gozen throttling Uchida Saburô by a waterfall Robinson: S7.4
	Scene: Minamoto no Ushiwaka Maru and Musashi-bô Benkei on Gojô Bridge with bats and a full moon Robinson: S7.5

“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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