Warrior triptychs
1836-1838
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Title: Higo no kuni Mizumata no kaijô nite
Tametomo nampû chii etc. Description:
Tarnetomo’s ship wrecked in a storm by a dragon in
the clouds and a great fish with tengu flying to the rescue Publisher:
Fujioka-ya Keijirô Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T30 |
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Title:
Untitled Description:
Asahina Saburô on the
seashore with a group of strange inhabitants of foreign lands Publisher:
Maru-ya Seijirô Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T31 |
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Title: Yoshitsune no jûku-shin Description:
Yoshitsune and his nineteen chief retainers in a
ship Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T32 NOTE: This
triptych is very similar to T319 from 1855. |
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Title: Miyamoto Musashi Shirakura ka dokushu no
etc. (宮本無三四白倉毒手…) Description:
Miyamoto Musashi bursting out of the bathhouse, to
the consternation of Shirakura Gengoemon,
his wife, and followers, who had intended to boil him alive there Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T33 NOTE: The
signature reads ‘Chô-ô-rô Kuniyoshi ga’. |
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Title: Kusunoki Masashige no
shin Tsujikaze Itamochi
no ryô-yûshi Fujiidera no
kassen ni Kazu-uji wo ikedokoro
zu (楠正成の臣辻風板持の両勇士葛井寺の合戦に員氏を生捕図) Description:
The Battle of Fujiidera
in driving rain: Kazu-uji and Moronao,
the Ashikaga generals, seized by the Kusunoki
(1348) Publisher:
Sôshû-ya Yohei Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T34 |
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Title: Kenkyû yo-nen go-gwatsu nijûhachi-nichi Description:
The Soga brothers knocking over foe in the camp enclosure after killing Suketsune ( Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T35 |
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Title: Inuzaka Keno Tanetomo Ômori to
Suzu-no-mori no etc. Description:
The three Hakkenden
heroes Inuzaka Keno Tanetomo,
Inuda Kobungo and Inukawa Shôsuke Yoshitomo
engaged in a running fight with numerous opponents; Mount Fuji behind Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T36 |
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Title: Nitta Yoshisada
Ashikaga Taka-uji ô-kassen Description:
The great battle (probably of Hyogo in 1335) between Nitta Yoshisada and Ashikaga Taka-uji:
a general melee, with Shinozuka Iga
no Kami grappling with Satô
Tôtômi no Kami (left) Publisher:
Tsuru-ya Kiemon Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T37 I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Title: Gempei kassen: Settsu Banshû no sakai
Naniwa-gata Heike no etc. Description:
Publisher:
Maru-ya Seijirô Date: c.
1836 Robinson:
T38 |
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Title: Zushû Ishibashiyama Tobi-no-gake ni Minamoto no Yoritomo seijû shichi-ki gaboku no naka ni kakure zu Description:
The Battle of Ishibashiyama (1180) in the rain,
showing Yoritomo and his seven companions hiding in
the hollow tree, and the combat of Kagehisa with Yoshisada Publisher:
Ise-ya Rihei (listed as Ebi-ya Rinnosuke in Robinson) Date:
c.1836 Robinson:
T39 |
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Title: Akasaka no shuku nite Ushiwaka Maru gôtô wo
kiru Description:
Ushiwaka fighting Chôhan
and his gang at the post station Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date:
c.1836 Robinson:
T40 |
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Title: Hakkenden no uchi: Hôryûkaku (Horyu tower from
Tale of Eight Dogs, 八犬傳之内法流閣) Description:
Inuzuka Shino at bay on the Hôryûkaku
roof against Inukai Kempachi
and his men, a favorite episode from the Hakkenden Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: c.
1836-1837 Robinson:
T41 |
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Title: Iga Kozuke adauchi no zu (伊賀上野仇討ち圖, Revenge at Kozuke in Iga) Description:
A battle on a plain outside a castle. Sakuragi Rinzaemon fleeing on horseback (left), his followers
chased by Karaki Masaemon
(right), while others are engaged by Ishidome Busuke (right); in the
background are Ubudai Rekishiro (left) racing to the assistance of Ikezoe Magohachi (centre) who
is engaged with Azumaki Kurobei,
and Sawai Matagoro with
Wada Shizuma Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: c.
1836-1837 Robinson: T41a (not in Robinson) |
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Title: Inuyama Dôsetsu Tadatomo shujin Orima-uji
no kataki isoko no etc. Description:
Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: c.
1836-1837 Robinson:
T42 |
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Title: Description:
The battle of Kurikaradani (1183) by moonlight:
Tomoe-gozen heaving a rock upon foemen clinging to
a steep bank (left), Kiso Yoshinaka
grappled with Mikawa no Kami
Tomonori (center), and warriors fighting on a road (right) Publisher:
No seal Date: c.
1837-1838 Robinson:
T43 |
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Title: Minamoto no Raikô jôraku Sagami no kuni
Ashigarayama ni etc. Description:
Genji Tsuna watches Kwaidô
Maru knocking a bear cub over a precipice; the
latter’s mother Yama-uba (left) is also present Publisher:
Fujioka-ya Hikotarô Date: c.
1837-1838 Robinson:
T44 |
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Title: Udaishô Yoritomo-kô
Heike tsuitô to shite
etc. Description:
Reception of Yoshitsune and Noriyori
by Yoritomo and his assembled nobles after their
victory over the Taira Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: c.
1837-1838 Robinson:
T45 |
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Title: Minamoto no Yorimitsu no Shitennô
tsuchigumo taiji no zu Description:
Raikô’s retainers about to kill the Earth-Spider in
the midst of its web Publisher:
Maru-ya Seijirô Date: c.
1838 Robinson:
T46 |
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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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