Triptych Battle Crossing

[nektoalex]

Greetings I ask for help in determining the plot and author of the triptych.

Respectfully

[Bugyotsuji]

Really fine triptych!

[Guest]

Hi Alexandr

 

Image three is the Publishers mark used between 1822 - 1852 for: Ezaki - Ya Tatsuzo (Seal name: Etatsu 江辰 - firm name: Sengyokudō).

[Bugyotsuji]

Minamoto no Yoritomo, Oshu Seibatsu, Sho Gun shuku jin gyoretsu no zu(?)

Overcoming Oshu, victorious army, encampment, procession, depiction(?)

源頼朝　奥州征伐　勝軍宿陣行列 の図

 

Edit, signed in hyotan gourds! 貞秀画　Sadahide Ga

[SteveM]

Piers did it!

 

Here is a copy of this one, with info in English. (Maybe can merge with other thread?)

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-victorious-army-of-minamoto-yoritomo-returns-from-the-conquest-of-%C3%B4sh%C3%BB-province-minamoto-yoritomo-%C3%B4sh%C3%BB-seibatsu-sh%C3%B4gun-kijin-gy%C3%B4retsu-no-zu-462114

[Bugyotsuji]

 Ah, yes, I wondered about that, 帰陣 Kijin, returning camp, not 宿陣. Thanks!
 

[nektoalex]

Thanks for the definition and disclosure of the plot-informative and instructive! Later, I will set another triptych for determination. Respectfully!

[Bugyotsuji]

It was probably a pleasurable challenge for all of us, Alexandr.

[nektoalex]

Happy New Year! I will ask you to define this triptych — the plot and the author — I hope it will be interesting too.

[Bugyotsuji]

1. Ichijusai Kunisada 一寿斎 国貞

[SteveM]

Nice one, Piers. And here is a link to a part of the triptych, from which we can see it was made in/around 1853, and features a scene from a kabuki play of Kobata Koheiji (alt. Kohada Koheiji) the lead character in a story of revenge. 

 

https://archive.waseda.jp/archive/detail.html?arg={%22subDB_id%22:%2252%22,%22id%22:%22188157;11%22}&lang=jp

 

See also 

Santō Kyoden (novelist, playwright)

Adachi Sakurō (character who kills Kobata Koheiji, and incurs his wrath and is subsequently tormented by him from the grave)

Fukushū Kidan Asaka no numa (the stories from where this tale originates)

 

Another version of the same, from Toyokuni, with helpful English explanation

http://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/lib/vm/kabuki2015_e/2015/12/h06.html

[nektoalex]

Thank! It is pleasant to communicate with you - nothing is impossible!

[nektoalex]

And the last of the Mohicans, who is waiting for the definition of its author.

[nektoalex]

From the analogs I found such a print option with the same character, even recognizable in the face, but a slightly different storyline.

[Bugyotsuji]

Post #13

 

誠忠義士銘々傳
Sei Chu Gishi Meimei Den

Kinchoro Yoshitora?
芳虎

[Guest]

Last image #14

 

signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi Ga

 

Depicting Yazama Kihei Mitsunobu making a sword stroke at a fleeing enemy from the series:

 

"Chushin Gishi Koumei Kurabe " 忠臣義士高名比

 

Published by Kobayashi Taijirou

 

1848

[nektoalex]

Thank you Bugyotsuji and Malcolm for the tips. I tried to search on https://ukiyo-e.org/post number 13 - but for some reason this link does not work. By the way post number 14 from the same place.

[SteveM]

I can't find the exact one that Alexander posted in post #13, but Piers is correct; Yoshitora. The figure in #13 is Yazama Kiuchi (喜内) Mitsunobu, from a kabuki dramatization of Chushingura (47 Samurai/Ronin). #14 is Yazama Kihei (亀兵) Mitsunobu, which may just be an alternative name for the same character.

 

Alexander's print is from a series, and each print in this series is identified further by a hiragana letter, almost like karuta. The one for Yazama Kiuchi Mitsunobu is "ぬ" in the series. They were originally printed in 1864 (元治元年). 

 

https://jp.Japanese-finearts.com/item/list2/A1-91-172/Yoshitora/Chushingura-(Set-of-50)%E3%80%80

[Bugyotsuji]

I cannot find his exact one, either. Maybe it's a discovery!

 

https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E8%AA%A0%E5%BF%A0%E7%BE%A9%E5%A3%AB%E9%8A%98%E3%80%85%E5%82%B3+%E8%8A%B3%E8%99%8E%E9%8C%A6%E6%9C%9D%E6%A5%BC&hl=ja&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjs-ovJw8ffAhUTIIgKHc_UAE0QsAR6BAgCEAE&biw=1188&bih=521

[nektoalex]

I tried it this way - I haven’t been banned in Google yet    - but I haven’t yet found such an option of post # 13 Thank.

[Bugyotsuji]

Add this to your search 矢間喜内藤原光延 Yazama Kinai Mitsunobu

[nektoalex]

Will seek. The best!

[Guest]

Hi Guys.,

 

Ref Post #13

 

誠忠義士銘々傳
Sei Chu Gishi Meimei Den

Kinchoro Yoshitora?
芳虎

 

Looks like Yoshitoshi took "inspiration" scroll down to see the pose:

 

https://ukiyoe-web-art-museum.weebly.com/yoshitoshi-8.html

[nektoalex]

Thank you Malcolm. The link only does not open for me - I can not go through it?

[Guest]

Link works here Alexandr, must be blocked in your Country

 

Try looking up Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, here's the Catalogues Raisonne:

 

http://www.yoshitoshi.net/

 

http://www.yoshitoshi.net/date.html

[TETSUGENDO]

A masterpiece.

                                                                                   

                                                                  -S-

[Guest]

Hi Steven.,

 

A Masterpiece!!

 

The central image of Fujiwara Yasumasa playing the flute features as a blown up image on the Ad Agency Office wall of the character Bertram Cooper (played by Robert Morse) in the TV series Mad Men.

 

There's a Kakejiku by Yoshitoshi of the theme:

 

https://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/uncanny-Japan-yoshitoshi/

 

Also by Yoshitoshi:

 

https://ukiyo-e.org/image/bm/AN00759701_001_l

 

Also there is a less appealing earlier version from the  reverse angle which is attributed to both Yoshitoshi and Adachi Ginko:

 

https://ukiyo-e.org/image/famsf/3306201405300020.

 

https://ukiyo-e.org/image/artelino/33100g1

 

There's also a version by Toyohara Chikanobu :

 

https://ukiyo-e.org/image/famsf/3307201109580076

[TETSUGENDO]

Indeed Malcolm, did note the print in 'Mad Men'.  Great collection of links, Yoshitoshi is the Puccini of the Japanese print, both arrived on the scene and inbued slightly stale artforms with a fresh point of view, both created  stunning catalogues full of perfectly beautiful moments.

 

Cheers, and a Happy New Year

                             -S-

[Guest]

Hi Steven,

 

For me, he's like the James Dean of Ukiyo - E artists, much in the same way as Kiyomaru is to Swordsmiths.

 

Have a good one mate, your comments are most respected.

 

M

PS

" the Puccini of the Japanese print"

 

Priceless!!!

 

Own this New Year of 2019!!

[TETSUGENDO]

Malcolm,

 

Thanks, the Dean analogy is a good one.......l do enjoy your take on things!

 

 Cheers

         -S-