Miscellaneous Warrior Prints

Part III

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 Ebina 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
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.
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: 2^nd month of 1855 Robinson: Not listed
	Format: Nagaban (about 20 by 8 inches or 50 by 20 centimeters) Description: Katô Kiyomasa (a vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi) subduing the Korean tiger Publisher: No seal Date: 1848-1852 Robinson: Not listed I am grateful to John Rose and Auction Ukiyo-e Ltd. for this image.

‘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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