Warrior triptychs
1853
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Title: Kawanakajima kassen: Shingen-kô hatamoto no yûshi etc. Description:
Takeda Shingen (standing at left) reviewing his
troops before the battle of Kawanakajima Publisher:
Mori-ya Jihei Date: Ox
1, February 1853 Robinson:
T289 NOTE:
Robinson gives the publisher as Hayashi-Ji. It was not unusual for woodblocks to be
purchased and reissued by a secondary published who replaced the original
publisher’s seal with his own. |
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Title: Igagoe kataki-uchi
(The Igagoe Revenge) Description:
The Igagoe revenge: Karaki
Masaemon (right) fighting against odds and Sawai Matagorô engaged by Wada Shizuma (left) Publisher:
Mori-ya Jihei Date: Ox
1, February 1853 Robinson:
T290 |
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Title: Sangokushi no uchi (三国志之内, A Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms) Subtitle: tôen ni gi wo musubu
zu Description:
Gentoku, Kwanu and Chôhi taking their oath of loyalty in the peach-orchard,
waited on by women 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:
Uesugi 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 |
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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 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 Ôeyama 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 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 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 (倶利伽羅谷合戦: 木曽義仲平將智教をうちとり) 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: Tsuzoku Sangokushi no uchi (通俗三国志之内, Popular History of the Three Kingdoms) Subtitle: 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 NOTE: This
triptych is part of the Tsûzoku Sangokushi no uchi (Popular
History of the Three Kingdoms) series. |
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Title: Tsuzoku Sangokushi no uchi (通俗三国志之内, Popular History of the Three Kingdoms) Subtitle: Ryofu wo ou to shite Tôtaku
niwa (呂布追董卓庭与轄) 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:
Izumi-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: Ôeyama 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: 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 e 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:
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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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