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Lord Yoritomo Celebrates the Departure of the Forces Allied with the Genji under the Two Great Generals Kama no Kanja Noriyori and Minamoto Kurô Yoshitsune as They Set Out to Subdue the Heike (Udaishô Yoritomo kô Heike tsuitô to shite Kama no Kanja Noriyori Minamoto Kurô Yoshitsune ryô daishô ni te Genji onko no shogunzei shutsujin o gashiiru zu)


「右大将(うだいしょう)頼朝公(よりともこう)平家追討(へいけついとう)として 蒲冠者範頼(かまのかんじゃのりより)源九朗義経(みなもとくろうよしつね) 両大将(りょうたいしょう)にて源氏恩顧(げんじおんこ)の諸軍勢(しょぐんぜい) 出陣を賀(が)しゐふ圖(づ)」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1837–38 (Tenpô 8–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.7 x 76 cm (14 7/16 x 29 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3209.42-4
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~ya-ma-da/tomomitu/heiketuitou-01.htm; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T45
DescriptionTriptych: 17.3209.42 (left), 17.3209.43 (center), 17.3209.44 (right)
Signed Chôôrô Kuniyoshi ga (on right and center sheets), Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on left sheet)
朝櫻楼国芳画 一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceBy 1917, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 – d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; April 5, 1917, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 5, 1917)