Miscellaneous Warrior Prints
Part II
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Format:
Fan print (uchiwa-e) Title: The
moor of Ukishima (Ukishima no hara) Description:
Yoritomo's troops passing before him in review Publisher:
no seal Date: c.
1835-40 Robinson: S95e.1 |
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Format: Fan
print (uchiwa-e) Title:
Benkei in the boat (Puna Benkei) Description:
Yoshitsune and his men in a storm at sea with Benkei in the bow exorcizing
the Taira ghosts Publisher:
no seal Date: c.
1835-40 Robinson: S95e.2 |
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Format:
Fan print (uchiwa-e) Title:
Verbal farce: Autumn moon on Ishiyama (Kôjô chaban lshiyama aki no tsuki) Description:
Lady Murasaki with a maid on a veranda under the
moon Publisher:
no seal Date: c.
1835-40 Robinson: S95e.3 |
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No image available Format:
Fan print (uchiwa-e) Description:
The poet Abe no Nakamaro in Publisher:
no seal Date: c.
1835-40 Robinson: S95e.4 |
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Format:
Fan print (uchiwa-e) Title:
Stories of Chaste Women (Reppuden) Description:
Poetess Shûshiki holding a roll of paper, having
just hung a poem on a blossoming cherry tree Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô (Dansendô) Date: 1844 Robinson: S95e.5 |
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Fan print (uchiwa-e) Title:
Stories of Chaste Women (Reppuden) Description:
Eighth century poetess Kaga no Chiyo
looking downward a morning glories Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô (Dansendô) Date: 1844 Robinson:
not listed |
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Format:
Fan print (uchiwa-e) Title: Abridged
Stories of Charming Women, Old and New: The Dragon-woman of Seta Bridge (Kokon yenjo ryakuden) Description:
The beautiful Dragon-woman, from the story of Fujiwara no Tawara
Toda Hidesato and the Giant Centipede, on Publisher:
Tsuji-ya Yasubei Date: c.
1845 Robinson: S95e.6 |
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Format:
Fan print (uchiwa-e) Title:
Mirror of brave women (Bu-yû onna kagami) Description:
Yama-uba reclining wile Kintarô sits upon her Publisher:
Iba-ya Kyubei Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S95e.7 |
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Format:
Fan print (uchiwa-e) Title:
None Description:
Kintarô with demons Publisher:
Enshû-ya Matabei Date: Robinson:
Not listed |
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Format:
Fan print (uchiwa-e) Title:
None Description:
Urashima Tarô leading Otohime, who is riding on an octopus Publisher:
Echigo-ya Chohachi Date: Robinson:
Not listed NOTE: Otohime is the daughter of Ryujin,
dragon-god of the sea |
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Format: Chûban tetraptych Title: The
great battle of Kawanakajima (Kawanakajima
ô-kassen) Description:
Double portrait of Takeda Daizen-no-daibu Harunobu Nyûdô Shingen with Buddhist
prayer-beads and war-fan (right) and Uyesugi Danjô-no-taihitsu Terutora Nyûdô Kenshin with large bamboo
staff (left), both seated in armor under their respective banners. Above is a long account of the campaign. Publisher:
Mura-Tetsu Date: c.
1845 Robinson: S95f.1 Image courtesy of John Lord |
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Format:
49.5 by 89 centimeter sheet Title: Sugoroku of the
Suikoden heroes (Suikoden gôketsu sugoroku) Description:
A large single sheet of the heroes of the Suikoden, adapted to the game of sugoroku, in
which dice were thrown to determine rate of progress from one section to
another. Title in large script,
upper right; central panel of Kohôgi Sôkô enthroned,
presiding over a meeting of six principal heroes round a table, and
surrounded by all the others, each in a named and numbered compartment. Publishers:
Tsuru-ya Kiyemon, Sano-ya Kihei, Kaga-ya
Kichiyemon and Nishimura-ya
Yohachi Date: c.
1830 Robinson: S95f.2 |
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Format: Ôban harimaze
print Description:
A harimaze
print is one that consists of several unrelated images on a single sheet of
paper. The left hand portion is a chûtanzakuban showing Inudzuka Shino on the crest of the Hôryûkaku
roof looking down upon Inukai Kempachi
with geese flying below a full moon.
The other two designs are a blowfish by Hiroshige and Daruma crossing the sea on a sword by Kunisada (signed Hanabusa Itchô ga). Publisher:
Tama-ya Sôsuke Date: 1858 Robinson: S95f.3 |
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Format: Ôban harimaze
print Description:
A harimaze
print is one that consists of several unrelated images on a single sheet of
paper. Publisher:
Mita-ya Kihachi Date: Robinson:
Not listed |
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Format: Ôban harimaze
print Description:
The oil thief by Kuniyoshi, Publisher:
Ise-ya Kanekichi Date:
Ninth month of 1858 Robinson:
Not listed |
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Format: Ôban harimaze
print Description:
Man carrying beggar across a stream finds that the latter is the Buddha in
disguise by Kuniyoshi, old lady serving tea by Hiroshige, and Prince Genji
with a beauty by Kunisada Publisher:
Ise-ya Kanekichi Date: 1858 Robinson:
Not listed Image courtesy of David Hafer |
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Format: Ôban Title:
Engraving of Yoshitsune’s heroes (Yoshitsune yeiyû
roku). Description:
A group of twenty-three figures in all, on plain blue ground, with Yoshitsune
himself at the top and Benkei at the bottom, all in armor except Shidzuka-gozen who holds a naginata Publisher:
Echizen-ya Heisaburô Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S95f.4 |
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Format: Ôban Title: Heike yeiyû roku Description:
Taira no Shigemori (on top) and the chief heroes of
the Taira Clan Publisher:
Echizen-ya Heisaburô Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S95f.4a |
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Format: Ôban Title: Kusunoki yeiyû roku Description:
A group of Kusunoki Masashige
and about twenty of his retainers Publisher:
Echizen-ya Heisaburô Date: c.
1840 Robinson: S95f.4b |
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Format: Ôban Title: Description:
Publisher:
Echizen-ya Heisaburô Date: c.
1840 Robinson:
unlisted |
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Format: Ôban Title: Description:
Uyesugi Danjô-no-taihitsu
Terutora Nyûdô Kenshin with large bamboo staff and his retainers Publisher:
Echizen-ya Heisaburô Date: c.
1840 Robinson:
unlisted |
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Format:
Set of ôban prints which may form a
polyptych Description:
Each print represents a seated champion on the Takeda side in the
Kawanakajima campaign with biographical text above by Shôtei
Kinsui. The top
of each print is shaded off with Takeda mon reserved. The print reproduced to the left is
Yamagata Saburohei Masakage
with a huge iron club. Publisher:
Tsu-Sawa Date: c.
1845 Robinson: S95f.5 |
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This is another state of
the above print. The green ground is
missing, and the publisher’s seal (right lower corner) has been changed to Ebisu-ya Shôshichi. |
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Format:
Set of ôban prints which may form a
polyptych Description:
Each print represents a seated champion on the Takeda side in
the Kawanakajima campaign with biographical text above by Shôtei
Kinsui.
The top of each print is shaded off with Takeda mon reserved. The print reproduced to the left is Kosaka Danjô-no-jô Masanobu,
who fought with Odai Matarokuro
against Haunobu (Shingen)
in 1544 but later joined the Takeda forces, seated with a military armillary
sphere behind him. Publisher:
Tsu-Sawa Date: c.
1845 Robinson: S95f.5 |
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Format:
Set of ôban prints which may form a
polyptych Description:
Each print represents a seated champion on the Takeda side in the
Kawanakajima campaign with biographical text above by Shôtei
Kinsui. The
top of each print is shaded off with Takeda mon reserved. The print reproduced to the left is
Yamamoto Kansuke Haruyuki
Nyûdô Dôkisai, in monk’s
helmet and robes, seated on a tiger-skin, and holding a closed fan before his
face. Publisher:
Tsu-Sawa Date: c.
1845 Robinson: S95f.5 The other recorded print is
of Takeda Hosshô-in Harunobu Nyûdô Shingen with a fan and horned helmet |
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Format: Horizontal
ôtanzakuban
(about 6.5 by 14 inches or 17 by 36 centimeters) Description:
The great hunting-party of Yoritomo on the moor
below Mount Fuji. Nitta Shirô Tadatsune and the giant
boar (right) and Yebina Gempachi
lifting a black bear-cub above his head (left) Publisher:
Kaga-ya Kichiyemon Date: c.
1830 Robinson: S95f.6 Image courtesy of John Rose
and Auction Ukiyo-e |
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Format:
Horizontal ôtanzakuban
(about 6.5 by 14 inches or 17 by 36 centimeters) Description:
Gen Sammi Yorimasa
(right) holding a torch over the fallen nuye, which is about to be
dispatched by his squire I no Hayata (center) with
Watanabe Choshichisho (left) watching Publisher:
Kaga-ya Kichiemon Date:
1833-1834 Robinson:
Not listed NOTE: The Nuye was a
beast with the head of a monkey, the claws of a tiger, the back of a badger
and a snake for a tail. It spent its
nights on the roof of the Emperor’s palace in Kyoto, causing him grave
illness until it was slain. |
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Format: chûban (about 7 by 10 inches or 18 by
25 centimeters) Description:
The Hag of the Lonely House at Adachi-ga-hara (Hitotsuya) with her young victim and an apparition of the
goddess Kannon (left). The scene is depicted as a painting in a
lacquer frame with an inscription dedicating the print to a restaurant
proprietor. Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô (Dansendô) Date: 2nd
month of 1855 Robinson:
Not listed |
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‘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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