Stories of Chivalrous Persons of Loyalty and Courage
(Kyôkaku giyû den)
Publisher: Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô
1851
The prints in this series are each about 14 by 10 inches (36 by 25 centimeters), a size known as ôban.
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Chivalrous person: Goshaku Somegorô
eating a live snake with a huge bowl of hot sake in his left hand and a dead cat on a dish before him. This
unpleasant meal was offered him by the evil Dairoku,
whom he subsequently killed. Robinson:
S70.1 |
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Chivalrous person: Hotei Ichiyemon, half-naked and tattooed,
with both arms out flung in front of a drying fishing net Robinson:
S70.2 |
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Chivalrous person: Tsuneyori was a sumô wrestler who was attacked by a giant snake while he was
walking along a riverbank Robinson:
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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listing in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its unpublished supplement.
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