Warrior triptychs
1853
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No image available Title: Kawanakajima kassen: Shingen-kô hatamoto
no yûshi etc. Description:
Takeda Shingen reviewing his troops before the battle of Kawanakajima Publisher:
Hayashi-Ji Date: Ox
1, February 1853 Robinson: T289 |
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Title: Igagoye kataki-uchi (The Igagoye
Revenge) Description:
The Igagoye revenge: Karaki Masayemon (right) fighting against odds and Sawai
Matagorô engaged by Wada Shidzuma (left) Publisher:
Mori-ya Jihei Date: Ox
1, February 1853 Robinson: T290 |
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Title: Sangokushi no uchi: tôyen ni gi wo musubu
zu Description:
Gentoku, Kwanu and Chôhi taking their oath of loyalty in the peach-orchard,
waited on by girls Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: Ox
3, April 1853 Robinson:
T291 |
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Title: Kawanakajima kassen: Kenshin-kô Shingen-kô
no hatamoto etc. Description:
Uyesugi Kenshin engaged by Wakatsuki Heidayû (left) and Nagasaka Gengorô
(right) at the Battle of Kawanakajima Publisher:
Mori-ya Jihei Date: Ox
3, April 1853 Robinson:
T292 |
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Title: Tsûzoku Sangokushi no uchi: Kwanu ga
gishin Sôsô wo yurusu zu Description:
Kwanu mounted at the head of his troops interviewing Sôsô Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: Ox
4, May 1853 Robinson:
T293 |
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Title: Tsûzoku Sangokushi no uchi: Gentoku mitabi
setchû ni (A Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, 通俗三国志之内: 玄徳三雪中孔明訪圖) Description:
Gentoku, Kwanu and Chôhi visiting the house of Kômei in the snow Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: Ox
4, May 1853 Robinson:
T294 |
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Title: Tsûzoku Sangokushi no uchi: kwa-i hone wo
kezurite Kwanu (A Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, 通俗三国志之内: 華佗骨刮関羽箭療治圖) Description:
Kwanu (center) playing go while Hua
Tuo performs a painful medical procedure known as bone shaving on the
former’s wounded arm Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: Ox
4, May 1853 Robinson:
T295 NOTE: The
website of the British Museum gives the title of this triptych as Tsuzoku Sangokushi no uchi: Kada hone Guan
Yu sa ryoji no zu. Image courtesy
of Vladislav Shevyrev |
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Title: Tsûzoku Sangokushi no uchi: Gentoku uma wo
odorasu Tan-kei etc. Description:
Gentoku leaping his horse into the gorge of Tan; the ox-boy (ushidôji) on the opposite bank Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: Ox
5, June 1853 Robinson:
T296 |
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Title: Tsûzoku Sangokushi: Kwanu go-kwan wo
yaburu no zu (A Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, 通俗三国志之, 關羽五關を破圖) Description:
Kwanu, mounted, receives the submission of Sôsô and his followers on a bridge
Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: Ox
5, June 1853 Robinson:
T297 |
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Title: Raikô Ôyeyama iri no zu Description:
Raikô severing the head of the Shuten-dôji, which springs in the air while
his followers destroy other demons Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date: Ox
5, June 1853 Robinson:
T298 |
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Title:
Tamatori-hime at the Dragon Palace (Ryûgû
Tamatori-hime no zu, 龍宮玉取姫之圖) Description:
Tamatori-hime, the ama who stole
the sacred jewel, pursued through the waves by a great dragon and various sea
creatures Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: Ox
6, July 1853 Robinson:
T299 |
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Title: Lifelike
Dolls in the Inner Temple at Asakusa (Asakusa
okuyama iki ningyô, 浅草奥山 生人形) Description:
About 1855-6, the above triptych was reprinted with a different title Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Robinson:
T299a (described but not assigned a number) NOTE: For
additional information, see Modern
Select Dolls. I am grateful to
Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Title: Kurikaradani kassen: Kiso Yoshinaka Heishô
Tomonori wo uchitori etc. Description:
The Battle of Kurikaradani in 1183: Yoshinaka kills the Taira commander
Tomonori, while Kagekiyo fells three of the oxen with burning brushwood
attached to their horns by which the Taira were thrown into a panic Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: Ox 6,
July 1853 Robinson:
T300 |
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Title: Tsûzoku Sangokushi no uchi: Hakumonro ni
Sôsô Ryofu wo kiru no zu Description:
The captives Ryofu, Kôjun and Chinkyû brought before Gentoku (top right, future
Chinese Emperor Chao Lieh) and Sôsô (second from top right, the king of
Gi). This is a scene from the Chinese
historical novel ‘Tsuzoku Sangokushi’ (The Rise and Fall of Three Kingdoms,
220-280 CE). Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: Ox
8, September 1853 Robinson:
T301 |
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Title: Ryofu wo ou to shite Tôtaku etc. Description:
Ryofu flees (left) as the gross Tôtaku falls backwards and Riju hastens to
his aid with Lady Chôsen watching from a balcony (right) Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: Ox 8,
September 1853 Robinson:
T302 NOTE: This
triptych is part of the Tsûzoku
Sangokushi no uchi (Popular History of the Three Kingdoms) series. |
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Title: Hokkoku ô-kassen (The Battle of
Kurikaradani) Description:
The Battle of Kurikaradani in 1183: Yoshinaka struggling with Tomonori, while
Unno Kotarô has just knocked a man and his horse over a cliff Publisher:
Idzumi-ya Ichibei Date: Ox
8, September 1853 Robinson:
T303 |
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Title: Kenkyû yo-nen go-gwatsu nijûhachi-nichi
Soga kyôdai ada-uchi no zu Description:
The Soga brothers about to strike down Kudô Suketsune in his tent by a
smoking brazier on Publisher:
Maru-ya Jimpachi Date: Ox
9, October 1853 Robinson:
T304 I am grateful to Ward
Pieters for locating this image. |
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Title: Ôyeyama fukuju shusei Description:
Raikô and his men entertaining the Shuten-dôji and his demons with sake and dancing Publisher:
Ki-ya Sôjirô Date: Ox
10, November 1853 Robinson:
T305 |
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Title: The
Tale of Shiraishi: The Revenge (Shiraishibanashi
katakiuchi no zu, 白石噺敵討の図) Description:
Two female relatives of Yoshioka Ichimisai taking their revenge on his
killer, Kyôgoku Takumi Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) Date:
Tenth month of 1853 Robinson:
T305a (not listed by Robinson) I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Title: Tsûzoku Sangokushi no uchi: Bachô ôi ni
sui-kyô ni tatakau etc. Description:
Battle between Bachô and Sôsô Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: Ox
11, December 1853 Robinson:
T306 I am grateful to Ward Pieters for locating this image. |
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Title: Tsûzoku Sangokushi no uchi: Ryû Gentoku
Hokkai ye kakomi otoku (A Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, 通俗三国志之内: 劉玄徳北海解圍) Description:
Kwanu (left), Gentoku (center) and Chôhi (right) in an engagement outside a
castle Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: Ox
11, December 1853 Robinson:
T307 |
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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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