Warrior triptychs

1839-1841, Part II

 

 

Title: Awadzu-ga-hara ô-kassen: Yoshinaka Shitennô Imai Shirô Kanehira etc.

Description: Prowess of Imai Kanehira at the battle of Awadzu in March, 1184; he is shown fighting under the pine tree of Karasaki on the shore of Lake Biwa; Yoshitsune is seen on the left

Publisher: Sôshû-ya Yohei

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T63

Title: Washi-no-o no Saburô Ichi-no-tani Hiyodori-goye no annaisha to naru zu

Description: Washio Saburô struggling with a black bear, watched by Yoshitsune and his retainers on March 21, 1184

Publisher: Maru-ya Seijirô

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T64

Title: Yoshitsune no gumpei Ichi-no-tani saka-otoshi no zu

Description: Yoshitsune leading his men in the descent of the Hiyodori-goye Gorge at the Battle of Ichi-no-tani on March 21, 1184

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T65

 

 

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Title: Banshû Suma-ga-mori no sakura ni Yoshitsune kôsatsu wo tatsuru zu

Description: Yoshitsune and his followers under the cherry-trees of Suma receiving Naozane with the head of Atsumori in a box after the Battle of Ichi-no-tani on March 21, 1184

Publisher: Kaga-ya Kichibei

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T66

Title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune Kajiwara sakaro sôron no zu

Description: The quarrel between Yoshitsune and Kajiwara Kagetoki about ‘reversed oars’ (sakaro) before the Battle of Yashima on March 23, 1184 

Publisher: Arita-ya Seiemon

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T67

Title: Gempei Yashima ô-kassen

Description: The great battle of Yashima on March 23,  1184: Yoshitsune’s ‘eight boat leap’ (center), Noritsune (left), Benkei on a large boat and Munemori clinging to a piece of floating wood (right)

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T68

Title: Nagato no kuni Akama-ga-ura Gempei ô-kassen

Description: The great Battle of Akama-ga-ura (usually known as the Battle of Dan-no-ura): Yoshitsune performing his ‘eight boat leap’ pursued by Noritsune and Moritsugu

Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Chôzô

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T69

 

NOTE: Yoshitsune’s superhuman ‘eight boat leap’ (hassô-tobi) is usually associated with the Battle of Yashima, rather than the Battle of Dan-no-ura. 

Title: Sesshû Daimotsu-no-ura ni Heike no onryô arawaruru no zu

Description: The ghosts of the Taira attacking Yoshitsune’s ship in Daimotsu Bay in the province of Settsu on November 28, 1185

Publisher: Nuno-Kichi

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T70

Title: Udaishô Yoritomo-kô Susono maki-gari seisen zu

Description: Yoritomo’s hunting-party assembling on Suso Moor under Mount Fuji in 1193

Publisher: Arita-ya Seijirô

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T71

 

I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image.

Title: Kenkyû yo-nen Minamoto no Yoritomo Fuji maki-gari no zu

Description: Tadatsune about to receive the charge of the monstrous boar, watched by Yoritomo and his followers in 1193

Publisher: Mori-ya Jihei

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T72

 

NOTE: The panels in this triptych are each approximately 20 by 8 inches (50 by 20 centimeters), a size known either as nagaban or as chôban.

Title: Yoritomo-kô Fuji no mi-kari no zu

Description: Yoritomo and his followers watching Tadatsune killing the monstrous wild boar

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T73

Title: Udaishô Yoritomo-kô sumô go-ran no zu

Description: The great sumô wrestling match before Yoritomo and his son Sanetomo: Chôkyô wrestling with Chikatsune, umpired by Ogata Saburô Masayoshi

Publisher: Fujioka-ya Hikotarô

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T74

 

 

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Title: Untitled

Description: Yegara Heita Tanenaga, having been swallowed by a giant python, cuts his way out, while Idzumi Kojirô Chikahira and Wada Kojirô Yoshishige control the monster

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T75

Title: Taiheiki Tenryûgawa no ukihashi no zu

Description: Nitta Yoshisada and Funada Nyûdô together leaping the gap in the broken bridge across the Tenryûgawa in 1335

Publisher: Ezaki-ya Tatsuzô

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T76

 

I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image.

Title: Miidera kassen: Nitta no Shitennô etc.

Description: A charge led by Wakiya Uyemon-no-suke Yoshisuke (the younger brother of Nitta Yoshisada) at the Battle of Miidera

Publisher: Sôshû-ya Yohei

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T77

Title: Nitta Sachûjô Yoshisada jûroku-gi no yeiyû no tomo ni etc.

Description: Nitta Yoshisada and his little band of heroes on the shore awaiting the host of Ashikaga Taka-uji, whose ships are seen approaching in the mist prior to the Battle of the Minatogawa in 1336

Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T78

Title: Kusunoki Masatsura kyôgun mi hatsukô wo mite etc.

Description: Kusunoki Masatsura on a hillock surrounded by his staff watching the massing of the Ashikaga troops under the opposing cliff

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T79

Title: Ryakuô nen-chû Yenya Hangwan keshi shi-jû-shichi ki etc.

Description: The night attack of the Forty-Seven Rônin: the fight in Moronao’s garden, crossed by a long wooden gallery

Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T80

Title: Chûshingura shijûshichi-nin: gishi shôkô no zu

Description: The Forty-Seven Rônin burning incense before the tomb of their master Yenya Hangwan after avenging his death

Publisher: Maru-ya Jimpachi

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T81

Title: Kwanzeon no reigen: hitotsuya no furu-koto rôba no sekiaku etc.

Description: The Hag of Adachi-ga-hara in the Lonely House (hitotsuya) with her girl-victim and the apparition of the goddess Kwannon

Publisher: Minato-ya Kohei

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: T82

Title: The Igagoye Revenge

Description:

Publisher: Mori-ya Jihei

Date: c. 1839-1841

Robinson: Not listed

 

NOTE: The panels in this triptych are each approximately 20 by 8 inches (50 by 20 centimeters), a size known either as nagaban or as chôban.

‘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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