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Kabuki Actors Being Fawned Over by Beautiful Women Backstage

ContributorsUtagawa Kuniyoshi (Artist) / 歌川 国芳 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1835 to 1841
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Triptych depicting backstage preparations during a kabuki play.

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Minamoto no Yoshitsune Being Presented With the Heads of Nenoi Oyata and Gonrokuro

ContributorsUtagawa Yoshikazu (Artist) / 歌川 芳員 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1858
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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…

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.