Stories of Remarkable Persons of Loyalty and High Reputation

(Chûkô meiyo kijin den)

Publisher: Ise-Ichi or Yenshû-ya Matabei

1845

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

 

Scene: Hatchô-tsubote Kiheiji and his wife Yatsuhiro at the attack on the Aso family in Higo

Robinson: S35.1

 

Scene: The sculptor Hidari Jinjorô with his sculptures of a dragon and two lions coming to life

Robinson: S35.2

 

Scene: the courtesan Jigoku (meaning hell) enthroned under the patronage of the priest Ikkyû

Robinson: S35.3

 

Scene: Kaji-jo the poetress of the Gion district of Kyoto  reclining and reading a letter

Robinson: S35.4

 

Scene: Kane-jo carrying her washing tub with runaway horse in background

Robinson: S35.5

 

Scene: The poetess Kikaku in a boat under a bridge during a shower of rain

Robinson: S35.6

 

Scene: Koshikibu-no-naishi with her servant at the Kitano Temple in Kyoto

Robinson: S35.7

 

Scene: Miyamoto Musashi with two wooden swords, fencing with the old Master Tsukahara Bokuden who is using two  wooden pot lids

Robinson: S35.8

 

Scene: Oguri Hangwan Ujishige attended by Terute-hime and holding a vicious horse

Robinson: S35.9

 

Scene: Ono no Tôfû (Michikaze) learning perseverance from a frog climbing a willow branch

Robinson: S35.10

 

Scene: Settsu no Zenji (Hirai) Yasumasa playing a flute on a moonlit night while the robber Hakamadare Yasusuke approaches

Robinson: S35.11

 

Scene: Shidzuka-gozen as a shirabyoshi dancing on a veranda

Robinson: S35.12

 

I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image.

 

 

Scene: poetess Shûshiki wearing her father’s overcoat in the rain

Robinson: S35.13

 

Scene: Sugimoto Sakubei, a retainer of Kusunoki, weeping before the latter’s son, Masatsura

Robinson: S35.14

 

Scene: Chinzei Hachirô Tametomo with a large improvised bow talking to a fisher-girl while exiled in Ôshima

Robinson: S35.15

 

Scene: Yamamoto Kansuke overcoming a giant boar in the snow

Robinson: S35.16

 

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Scene: Chûjô-hime seated watching a rainbow with a spinning wheel forming a halo behind her head

Robinson: S35.17

 

 

Scene: Shijô Dainagon on the rail of a veranda with a ball above him and a flight of wild geese

Robinson: S35.18

‘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listing in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints by Basil William Robinson (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) and its unpublished supplement.

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