Warrior triptychs
1818-1831
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Title:
Untitled Description:
The ghosts of Tomomori and the other Taira warriors slain at Dan-no-ura
attacking Yoshitsune and Benkei
in their ship Publisher:
Adzuma-ya Daisuke Date: 1818 Robinson:
T1 NOTE: This
is generally considered to be Kuniyoshi’s earliest warrior triptych. |
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Title:
Untitled Description:
The hero Raikô (Minamoto
no Yorimitsu) in his sickness is tormented by the
Earth Spider, one of whose legs he has cut off, but it is replaced by a human
arm Publisher:
Nishimura-ya Yohachi Date:
c.1818-20. Robinson: T1a NOTE: This
may be the left and middle sheets of a triptych |
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Title:
Untitled Description:
Tadanobu in Yoshitsune’s
armour, with his men, fighting Yokogawa Kakuhan and his monks amid a flight of arrows in the
snows of Publisher:
Tsuru-ya Kihei Date:
c.1820 Robinson:
T2 |
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Title:
Untitled Description:
Raikô’s retainers advancing on Kidô
Maru, who raises his buffalo-hide disguise Publisher:
Ise-ya Rihei Date: c.
1820 Robinson:
T3 |
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Title:
Untitled Description:
The Earth-Spider and his demons attacking the
sick Raikô and his retainers Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date:
c.1820 Robinson:
T4 |
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Title:
Untitled Description:
Ushiwaka Maru fighting Kumasaka Chôhan and his gang at
the post station Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date:
c.1820 Robinson:
T5 NOTE:
These are two sheets from a triptych. |
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Title:
Untitled Description:
Kuriu Sayemon, Hata Rokurozayemon, Shinodzuka Iga no Kami, and Watari Shinzayemon, retainers of Nitta Yoshisada,
breaking up a haunted temple Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: c.
1820-1825 Robinson:
T6 |
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Title:
Untitled Description:
The Nuye, shot down
in a swirling black cloud by Gen Sammi Yorimasa, about to be dispatched by Ii no Hayata Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: c.
1820-1825 Robinson:
T7 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, causing him grave illness until
it was slain by I no Hayata Hironao. |
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Title: Hakone reigen izari no ada-uchi Description:
The revenge of Iinuma Katsugorô,
with the apparition of his wife Hatsu-hana in the
waterfall Publisher:
Nishimura-ya Yohachi Date: c.
1825 Robinson:
T8 |
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Title: Ehon Gappô tsuji Description:
Takahashi Kambô defending himself on a huge image
against a swarm of attackers Publisher:
Tsuru-ya Kihei Date: c.
1825 Robinson:
T9 |
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Title: Taira no Kiyomori Encountering
the Ghost of Yoshihiro at Nunobiki Falls (Kiyomori Nyûdô Nunobiki no taki yûran Akugenda Yoshihira no rei Namba Jirô
wo utsu, 清盛入道布引滝遊覧) Description:
The ghost of Akugenda Yoshihira striking down his
killer, Namba Jirô, at
the Nunobiki waterfall before Kiyomori
and his suite Publisher:
Ise-ya Sanjirô Date: c.
1825 Robinson:
T10 |
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Title: Chûshingura: gishi
Takanawa hikitori no zu Description:
The Forty-seven Rônin, their task
accomplished, retire to Takanawa; their leader Yuranosuke interviewing a priest of the temple (right) Publisher:
Kaga-ya Kichiyemon Date: 1827 Robinson:
T11 |
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Title: Chûishingura: yo-uchi no zu Description:
The night attack in the Chûishingura; fight in the garden between the Forty-Seven Rônin and the retainers of Moronao, some of whom (left) are defending their master’s
hiding place Publisher:
Kaga-ya Kichiyemon Date: c.
1827-1830 Robinson:
T12 |
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Title: Chûshingura: yo-uchi
no zu Description:
The night attack in the Chûshingura; the Forty-seven Rônin beginning to go over Moronao’s
wall by rope ladders on either side of the main gate Publisher:
Kaga-ya Kichiyemon Date: c.
1827-1830 Robinson:
T13 |
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Title: Chûshingura jûichi
damme: Ryôgoku-bashi sei-soroi zu Description:
Eleventh act of the Chûshingura: the Forty-seven Rônin assembled at sunrise in the snow at Ryôgoku
Bridge with a flight of wild geese overhead
Publisher:
Kaga-ya Kichiyemon Date: c.
1827-1830 Robinson:
T14 |
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Title: Chûshingura: gishi
Ryôgoku-bashi hikitori no
zu Description:
The Forty-seven Rônin, having
crossed Ryôgoku bridge on their triumphant return, are interviewed
by a mounted official (right) Publisher:
Kaga-ya Kichibei Date: c. 1827-1830 Robinson:
T15 |
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Title:
Untitled Description:
Preparations for the defense of the Horikawa
Palace: Shidzuka-gozen is handed a naginata by one of her maids, while
Tadanobu gets out his armor (left); Yoshitsune,
armed with a naginata, hurries
along the veranda (center); and Benkei, grasping an
iron club, gives directions (right) Publisher:
Nishimura-ya Yohachi Date: c.
1830 Robinson:
T16 |
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Title: Yashima ô-kassen Description:
Yoshitsune executing his ‘eight boat leap’ (hassô-tobi),
cutting through a rudder and a wooden shield that have been thrown at him Publisher:
Ise-ya Rihei Date: c.
1830 Robinson:
T17 NOTE: This
triptych is known both with and without a black sky. |
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Title: Ujigawa kassen no zu (The Fording of the Uji
River) Description:
Takatsuna leading, followed by Kagesuye
and Shigetada Publisher:
Ezaki-ya Tatsuzô Date: c.
1831 Robinson:
T18 NOTE: This
triptych was reissued about 1845 with the seal of the censor, Hama |
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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 privately published supplement.
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