Warrior triptychs
1832-1835
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Title: Yamashiro no kuni Kasagi ishi-ie kassen no zu Description:
Defence of Publisher:
Tsuru-ya Kiemon Date: c.
1832 Robinson:
T19 |
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Title: Kuramayama no zu Description:
Ushiwaka Maru practicing
fencing with the tengu
under the direction of Sôjô-bô with Kisanda in attendance Publisher:
Ômi-ya Heihachi (listed
as Yezaki-ya Tatsuzô in Robinson) Date: c.
1832 Robinson:
T20 |
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Title: Ôeyama Shuten-dôji shûzui no zu Description:
The drinking bout of Raikô and his retainers with
the Shuten-dôji in the latter’s palace on Mount Ôeyama Publisher:
Daikoku-ya Heikichi Date: c.
1832 Robinson:
T21 |
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Title: Nitta Ashikaga ô-watashi
ô-kassen Description:
Nitta Yoshisada and his troops swimming across a
river (probably the Iruma River) by a broken bridge
to attack a fortified position on the opposite bank Publisher:
Sôshû-ya Yohei Date:
c.1832 Robinson:
T22 |
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Title: Description:
Sasaki Takatsuna (佐々木 高綱) and
Kajiwara Kagetoki (梶原 景時) leading troops at the battle of Publisher:
Date:
c.1832 Robinson: T22a (not in Robinson) I am grateful to Vana Johnson for this image. |
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Title: Gyakushin Masakado wa Rokurô
Kintsura ga isame no etc. Description:
Musashi Gorô Sadayo striking Rokurô Kintsura with his fan before the latter’s brother Masakado Publisher:
Akamatsu-ya Shôtarô Date: c.
1833-1834 Robinson:
T23 |
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This is an altered version
of the above triptych to depict a scene from an 1843 production of the kabuki play Samidare (Rain in the Fifth
Month). The actors from left to right
are Bandô Mitsugorô IV as
Takechi Mitsuhide, Iwai Hanshirô VI as Ranmaru, and Sawamura Tosshô I as Harunaga. Date: 9th
month of 1834 Theater:
Morita Publisher:
Akamatsu-ya Shôtarô |
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Title: Shimotsuke no kuni Nasu no hara kimmô
hakumen kyûbi no akko taiji no zu Description:
The Nine-tailed Fox slain on Nasu moor by Miura-no-suke Tsunetane and Kazusa no Suke Hirotsune Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: c.
1834 Robinson:
T24 |
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Title: Yoshinaka hata-age kassen no zu Description:
The first battle at the erecting of Yoshinaka’s
standard in Shinano (1180): Jô
Shirô Nagamochi on
horseback (left) cutting at Tayû-bô Kakumei (center), and Tomoe-gozen
killing Kurotsuka Hachirô
(right) Publisher:
Takenouchi Magohachi Date: c.
1834 Robinson:
T25 NOTE: This
triptych was reissued in 1845 with numerous alterations as T160. The title was changed to Takeda Uesugi Kawanakajima ô-kassen no zu, Nagamochi became Uesugi Kenshin, Tayû-bô became Takeda Shingen
and the right hand sheet blocks were recut to eliminate Tomoe-gozen. I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Title: Engen gwan-nen go-gwatsu nijûgo-nichi Minatogawa ô-kassen Description:
The battle of the Minatogawa on July 4, 1336:
fighting on a hill with the Ashikaga fleet approaching in the distance Publisher:
Tsuru-ya Kiemon Date: c.
1834 Robinson:
T26 |
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Title:
Untitled Description:
Raikô cutting off the head of the monster Shuten Dôji, which springs in
the air. Raikô’s
four chief retainers (shitennô)
are shown, left to right, Usui Sadamitsu,
Sakata no Kintoki, Hirai Yasumasa,
Urabe Suetake, and Genji Tsuna
(killing a demon) Publisher:
Sano-ya Kihei Date:
c.1835 Robinson: T26a |
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Title: Kanshin mata-kuguri no zu (韓信骻潜之圖, The Humility of Kanshin) Description: Kanshin
crawling between the legs of a fisherman, to the amusement of the latter’s
companions Publisher:
Sano-ya Kihei Date: c.
1835 Robinson:
T27 |
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A later printing, c. 1843,
with the seal of the censor, Tanaka |
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Title: Sanada no Yoichi Yoshihisa, Matano no Gorô
Kagehisa (真田與市義久 俣野五郎景久, Sanada no
Yoichi Yoshihisa and Matano no Gorô Kagehisa) Description:
Struggle between Yoshihisa and Kagehisa at the Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: c.
1835 Robinson:
T28 NOTE: The
name “Yoshihisa” was erroneously substituted for “Yoshitada”. |
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Title: Igagoe kataki-uchi no zu (The Igagoe Revenge) Description:
Karaki Masaemon (center)
fighting against superior forces; Busuke and Magohachi defending a bridge (right); spectators in the
background Publisher:
Sôshû-ya Yohei Date:
c.1835 Robinson:
T29 NOTE: The
left and middle sheets of a triptych are illustrated. Note Kuniyoshi’s signature, the censor’s
seal, and the publisher’s seal on the wooden post. |
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Title: Description:
Ise no Kami Yoshitsune and his retainer Kumai Tarô
preparing to defend Horikawa Palace against the
attack of Tosa-bô Shôshun
and his men, who are seen approaching in the background. Publisher:
not indicated on the one sheet seen by Robinson Date:
c.1835 Robinson: T29a NOTE: This
is the right-hand sheet of a triptych |
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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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