Warrior triptychs
1845, Part I
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Title: Nin-ô jûgo-dai Jingô Kôgô Sankan seibatsu
Takenouchi etc. Description:
Under the direction of Takeshiuchi-no-sukune Japanese troops lever an
enormous rock over a precipice above a Korean city Publisher:
Nomura-ya Tokubei Date: 1845 Robinson:
T145 |
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Title: Kiso Yoshinaka Hokkoku ni hei wo agete
Miyako e etc. Description:
The Battle of Kurikaradani on Publisher:
Kagi-ya Hanjirô Date: 1845 Robinson:
T146 |
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Title: Daimotsu-no-ura Yoshitsune shûjû etc. Description:
The Taira ghosts rising from the sea to attack Yoshitsune’s ship Publisher:
Kiyomizu-ya Date: 1845 Robinson:
T147 |
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Title: Chû-kô-gi-yû: oji no ada-uchi (忠孝義勇:伯父仇討) Description:
Yasubei’s revenge on Murakami Shôemon and his men for the death of his uncle,
watched by his mother and sister Publisher:
Ise-ya Ichibei Date: 1845 Robinson:
T148 |
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Title: Ushiwaka Maru Ôshû no kin-akibito to tomo
ni gekô no etc. Description:
Ushiwaka Maru, traveling to Mutsu with Kichiji the gold-merchant, has his
sandals removed at the inn where he was later attacked by Chôhan and his gang Publisher:
Sumiyoshi-ya Masagorô Date: 1845 Robinson:
T149 |
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Title: Benkei ga yûriki tawamure ni Miidera no
tsurigane wo Hieizan e hikioguru zu Description:
Benkei dragging off the great bell of Miidera, watched by Yoshitsune in the
background Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô Date: 1845 Robinson:
T150 |
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Title:
Yoshitsune and his Nineteen Chief Retainers (Yoshitsune no jûku-shin, 義経十九臣) Description:
The names of the retainers listed on top from
right to left are: Kumai Tarô Tadamoto Kamada Tôji Mitsumasa Sugime Kotarô Yukinobu Hori Yatarô Tomotô Suzuki Saburô Shigekiyo Suruga Jirô Kiyoshige Ise Saburô Yoshimori Satô Saburô Tsuginobu Hitachi-bô Kaison Yoshitsune Musashi-bô Benkei Satô Shirô Tadanobu Kamei Rokurô Narikiyo Kataoka Hachirô Tsuneharu Masuo Gon-no-kami Kanefusa Eda Genzô Hirotsugu Washio Saburô Yoshihisa Kuroi Tarô Tsunekiyo Akai Tôda Todaharu Mimmaya Kisanda Sadakiyo Publisher:
Nuno-Kichi Date: 1845 Robinson:
T151 |
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Another state of the above
triptych |
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Title: Heike no ichimon ikusa kado-ide no shuen
Tomomori etc. Description:
The great feast of the Taira before going to war, with Tomomori dancing
(center) Publisher:
Ezaki-ya Tatsuzô Date: 1845 Robinson:
T152 |
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Title: Description:
Kajiwara Kagesue in the Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: 1845 Robinson:
T153 |
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Title: Kawanakajima ô-kassen: Kenshin no
kuruma-gakari wo mite etc. Description:
Kansuke reporting Kenshin’s movements to Shingen, surrounded by his staff on
the river-bank Publisher:
Sano-ya Kihei Date: 1845 Robinson:
T154 |
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Another state of the above
design |
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Title: Taira no Kiyomori Yoshitomo wo horobosu
sono shô Tokiwa wakagimi wo etc. Description:
Tokiwa-gozen and her children brought before Kiyomori Publisher:
Ebisu-ya Shokichi (Robinson read this publisher’s seal as “Yebi-Ne”) Date: 1845 Robinson:
T155 NOTE:
Kiyomori resembles actor Nakamura Utaemon IV who played this role in the kabuki play Gempei Soga at the Nakamura Theatre at the beginning of 1845. |
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Title: Sesshûi Ichi-no-tani Gempei kassen no zu Description:
The fight on the seashore at Ichi-no-tani with the Taira fleet out in the bay
on March 21, 1184 Publisher:
Yahata-ya Sakujirô (called “Hachi” by Robinson) Date: 1845 Robinson:
T156 |
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Title: Kenkyû gwan-nen Udaishô Yoritomo shôraku
no go Nanto Tôdaiji (建久元年右大将頼朝上洛の後南都東大寺) Description:
The attempted arrest of Kagekiyo in the courtyard of Tôdaiji Temple at Publisher:
Hayashi-ya Shôgorô Date: 1845 Robinson:
T157 |
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This altered reprint of the
above design, also published by Hayashi-ya Shôgorô, is dated the 7th
month of 1858 |
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Title: Kenkyû yo-nen go-gwatsu Minamoto no
Yoritomo-kô Fuji no Susono nite etc. Description:
Soga Jurô dancing before Kudô Suketsune in 1193 Publisher:
Ebi-ya Rinnosuke Date: 1845 Robinson:
T158 |
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Another state of the above
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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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