Warrior triptychs
1854 - 1855
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Title: Description:
Tokiwa-gozen and her children in the snow Publisher:
Izutsu-ya Shôkichi Date: Ox
12, January 1854 Robinson:
T308 NOTE: This
triptych was listed by Robinson in Kuniyoshi:
The Warrior-Prints (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1982) based on
his having seen only a single sheet.
However, the privately published
supplement states “This turns out to be a theatrical triptych, the
production so far unidentified”. |
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Title: Description:
Ôta Saemon-dayû Mochisuke (also known as Ôta Dôkwan, centre) holding a bow
and lifting his hat, being offered a spray of flowers by a kneeling woman,
watched by a woman with a child (left) Publisher:
Ebi-ya Rinnosuke Date: 4th
month of 1854 Robinson:
T308a (not listed in Robinson) |
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Title: Tsûzoku Sangokushi no uchi: Kôchû Gi-en wo
chôsha ni tatematsuru Description:
The old warrior Kôchû overthrown by Kwanu Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date:
Tiger 8, October 1854 Robinson:
T309 I am grateful to Ward
Pieters for locating this image. |
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Title: Tsûzoku Sangokushi no uchi: Kômei mutabi
Môkwaku wo toriko ni su Description:
Shukuyû Fujin, wife of Môkwaku, overthrowing Chôki and Machûi Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date: Tiger
8, October 1854 Robinson:
T310 |
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Title: Tsûzoku Sangokushi no uchi: Kwanu Gi no
shichi-gun wo hitasu Description:
Kwanu destroying the Seven Armies of Gi (Wei) in a great river battle Publisher:
Tsuta-ya Kichizô Date:
Tiger 8, October 1854 Robinson:
T311 |
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Title:
Yoritomo’s night-attack on the Description:
Yoritomo’s night-attack on the Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date:
Tiger 8, October 1854 Robinson:
T312 |
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Title: Eiroku yo-nen ku-gwatsu Kawanakajima
ô-kassen, (永禄四年九月川中島大合戦, 4th Year, 9th Month of the Eiroku Era, Battle of
Kawanakajima) Description:
Yamamoto Kansuke rallying his exhausted troops on a hill for their last stand
at the Battle of Kawanakajima in October 1561 Publisher:
Yamamoto-ya Heikichi Date:
Tiger 8, October 1854 Robinson:
T313 |
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Title: Kawanakajima ô-kassen: Kenshin Saijôzan ni
oite sarugaku etc. Description:
Uesugi Kenshin originating the monkey dance at Saijôzan during the
Kawanakajima Campaign Publisher:
Ki-ya Sôjirô Date:
Tiger 11, January 1855 Robinson:
T314 |
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Title: Awazu kassen (粟津合戰, The battle of Awazu) Description:
The battle of Awazu in 1184: Tomoe-gozen (left) wielding a tree trunk, while
Yoshinaka (center) is shot riding through the bog with Wada Yoshimori (right)
Publisher:
Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke Date:
Tiger 12, January-February 1855 Robinson:
T315 |
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Title: Kawanakajima ô-kassen (The Battle of
Kawanakajima) Description:
Onikojima Yatarô overthrowing Nakanishi Dairokurô at the Battle of
Kawanakajima Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: Hare
1, February-March 1855 Robinson:
T316 I am grateful to Ole Albæk
Pedersen for locating this image. |
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Title:
General Watônai Conquering the Tigers in Formosa (Watônai gunko tôshu no zu, 和藤内群虎討取圖) Description:
Katô Kiyomasa (Watônai) and his men chasing tigers which are carrying off
some Japanese soldiers across a river Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: Hare
1, February-March 1855 Robinson:
T317 |
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Title: Asaji- (i.e. Adachi-) ga-hara hitotsuya
no zu Description:
The Lonely House story: the Hag (center) with a suppliant female victim and
the appearance of the goddess Kwannon (right) behind a screen Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: Hare
2, March-April 1855 Robinson:
T318 |
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Title: Yoshitsune (no) jûku-shin Description:
Yoshitsune and his nineteen retainers in a ship with Benkei at the prow Publisher:
Izumi-ya Ichibei Date: Hare
6, July-August 1855 Robinson:
T319 NOTE: This
triptych is very similar to T32 from about 1836. |
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Title: Minamoto no Yoritomo Ishibashiyama
hata-age kassen Description:
The aftermath of the Battle of Ishibashiyama in 1180: Yoritomo and his men
hiding in a hollow tree (right) while Kagetoki (center) diverts their
pursuers Publisher:
Daikoku-ya Kinjirô Date: Hare
8, September-October 1855 Robinson:
T320 |
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Title: Satô Tadanobu yûsen Yoshitoki ga sei wo
utsuru zu (Sato Tadanobu Bravely Resisting Arrest, 左藤忠信勇戦芳時が勢を移る圖) Description:
Tadanobu furiously resisting arrest, wielding a go board with one hand and grasping the hair of his treacherous
mistress with the other, the go pieces
flying in all directions Publisher:
Yamaguchi-ya Tôbei Date: Hare
9, October-November l855 Robinson:
T321 NOTE: This
triptych was published in 1855 from a design dating from about 1835. |
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Title: Sagi-no-ike Heikurô Taka-uji no taigun
etc. Description:
Sagi-no-ike Heikurô creating havoc among the Ashikaga troops Publisher:
Mori-ya Jihei Date: Hare
9, October-November 1855 Robinson:
T322 |
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Title: Kusunoki Ashikaga ô-kassen Description:
Ashikaga Taka-uji (left) struck by a severed head flung by Sagi-no-ike
Heikurô (right) Publisher:
Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke Date: Hare
9, October-November 1855 Robinson:
T323 Image courtesy of Davor
Solter |
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Title: Shinshû Kawanakajima Takeda no shôhei
Saijôzan wo hikigaeshi (信州川中嶋武田の正兵西条山を引がえし) Description:
Amakasu Ômi-no-kami Kagetoki (the historical Kajiwara no Kagetoki) directing
the attack of the Uesugi troops at the battle of Kawanakajima Publisher:
Hayashi-ya Shôgorô Date: Hare
9, October-November 1855 Robinson:
T324 |
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Title: Kawanakajima kassen (The Battle of
Kawanakajima) Description:
Close-up view of the face-to-face encounter of Takeda Shingen (center) and
Uesugi Kenshin (left) at Kawanakajima with Hachikawano Zensuke (right)
thrusting a spear at Uesugi Kenshin Publisher:
Jôshû-ya Kinzô Date: Hare
9, October-November 1855 Robinson:
T325 |
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Drawing for unpublished triptych
showing the strong woman Kaneko Kugutsune (also called O Kane or Omi no O
Kane) holding down the sacred white temple horse with her geta, c. 1855 |
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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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