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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Another state of the above
design published by Jôshû-ya Juzô |
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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 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 image. |
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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
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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 Detail from 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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