Warrior triptychs
1846
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Title:
Satsuma no Kami Tadanori’s last poem forms the title of the triptych:
Description:
Satsuma no Kami Tadanori writing his last poem under the cherry trees on the
evening before his death at Ichi-no-tani on Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: 1846 Robinson:
T173 |
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Title: Fukushû kagami ni maze no ki Description:
Composite picture of various dramatic stories of revenge Publisher:
Jingi Kikubei Date: 1846 Robinson:
T174 |
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Title:
Battle of Kawanakajima: Battle of Kenshin and Shingen (Kawanakajima ô-kassen: Kenshin Shingen tachi-uchi no zu, 川中嶋大合戦 謙信 信玄 太刀打之圖) Description:
Personal encounter of Shingen and Kenshin in the river at the battle of
Kawanakajima in 1560 Publisher:
Yamashiro-ya Jimbei Date: 1846 Robinson:
T175 |
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Series: Selection
for the Eight Views (Mitate hakkei,
美盾八競) Title:
Glorious Sunset (seiran) Description:
Miyamoto Musashi by a mill-stream knocking down Shirakura
Dengoyemon and his men with a broken beam Publisher:
Iba-ya Kyûbei Date: 1846 Robinson:
T176 |
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Series:
Selection for the Eight Views (Mitate
hakkei, 美盾八競) Title:
Descending Geese at Takadono (Takadono
no rakugan, 高殿落雁) Description:
Masakado drinking sake on a terrace
with Kikyô-no-maye and other ladies watching a flight of wild geese in the
year 939 Publisher:
Enshû-ya Matabei Date: 1846 Robinson:
T177 |
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Series:
Selection for the Eight Views (Mitate
hakkei, 美盾八競) Title:
Evening Description:
Oniwaka Maru knocking down attackers on the steps of Enkyôji Temple in Harima
Province Publisher:
Enshû-ya Matabei Date: 1846 Robinson:
T178 |
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Series:
Selection for the Eight Views (Mitate
hakkei, 美盾八競) Title:
Evening Glow at Yashima (Yashima no
sekishô, 屋島夕照) Description:
Benkei looking through a telescope (left) at Lady Tamamushi-no-maye (right)
and the fan on the pole at the Battle of Yashima Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô Date: 1846 Robinson:
T179 I am grateful to Louise
Ariëns Kappers and C.P.J. van der Peet bv Japanese woodblock prints for this
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Series:
Selection for the Eight Views (Mitate
hakkei, 美盾八競) Title:
Returning sails (kihan) Description:
Koman swimming in Lake Biwa with the Minamoto banner is attacked from the
Taira barge by Sanemori Publisher:
Ise-ya Ichibei Date: 1846 Robinson:
T180 |
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Series:
Selection for the Eight Views (Mitate
hakkei, 美盾八競) Title:
Autumn Moon at Kanzaki (Kanzaki no
shûgwatsu) Description:
The boatman Matsuyemon (formerly Higuchi Jirô Kanemitsu) hurling a huge
anchor Publisher:
Koshima Date: 1846 Robinson:
T181 |
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Series:
Selection for the Eight Views (Mitate
hakkei, 美盾八競) Title:
Evening Rain in the Gion Woods (Gionbayashi
no ya-u) Description:
Taira no Tadamori (center) and the oil-thief (right) Publisher:
Iba-ya Sensaburô Date: 1846 Robinson:
T182 NOTE: This triptych is by Hiroshige—not
Kuniyoshi. However it belongs to the
same series— Mitate hakkei—as
triptychs T176, T177, T178, T179, T180 and T181. Mitate
hakkei may be translated as “Selection for the Eight Views”, “Parodies of
the Eight Views” or “Allegory of the Eight Views”. |
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Title:
Watônai Hunting a Tiger (Watônai
tora-gari no zu, 和藤内虎刈ノ圖) Description:
Katô Kiyomasa (Watônai) attacking a huge tiger in the snow in Publisher:
Yamashiro-ya Jimbei Date: 1846 Robinson:
T183 |
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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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