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ContributorsUtagawa Yoshikazu (Artist) / 歌川 芳員 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1858
Description
This ōban triptych depicts Minamoto Yoshitsune 源 義經 (center left) and his retainers after their victory over the troops of Minamoto no Yoshinaka at the battle of Hōjūjidono in 1184. The warrior monk Musashibō Benkei 武藏坊 辨慶 sits to the right of Yoshitsune. In the lower-right corner lie the decapitated heads of Nenoi Ōyata 根井 大弥太 and Gonrokurō 権六郎.
ContributorsTakahashi Shōtei (Artist) / 高橋松亭 (Artist) / Watanabe Shōzaburō (Publisher) / 渡辺 庄三郎 (Publisher)
Created1932
DescriptionWoodblock print depicting a wagon puller during a nighttime rain shower in the Asagaya district of Tokyo.
ContributorsUtagawa Kunisada II (Artist) / 歌川 国定 (Artist) / Chō Hori (Contributor) / 長彫 (Contributor) / Maruya Kyūshirō (Publisher) / 丸屋久四郎 (Publisher)
Created1864
Description
Triptych by Utagawa Kunisada II depicting a scene from the kabuki play Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji (The Imitation Murasaki and the Rustic Genji), a dramatization of a popular book by Ryūtei Tanehiko 柳亭 種彦 that satirizes the Tale of Genji.
ContributorsTsukioka Yoshitoshi (Artist) / 月岡 芳年 (Artist) / Watanabe Horiei (Contributor) / 渡辺 彫栄 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1874
DescriptionThis newspaper nishiki-e depicts the prelude to the 1860 Sakuradamon Incident. Mito clan conspirators Saitō Kenmotsu and Ōzeki Washichirō lie in wait for the target of their assassination plot: the chief minister to the Tokugawa government, Ii Naosuke.