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Ushiwaka Maru night fight at the inn

Title/text: In the 4th year of the Jôhan era, he (Chohan) broke into Aotoba’s inn to steal Tachibanaji’s luggage, but Ushiwakamaru ended up killing him: Uketamawa yasu shi-nen Tachibana tsugi no nimotsu datsu n tame Aohaka no yado e nyū komi shi ga tsui ni ushi waka maru ga tame satsugai seraru (承安四年橘次の荷物奪ん為青墓の宿へ入込しが終に牛若丸が為殺害せらる)

Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn triptych
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn front
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn verso
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn signature
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn detail
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn detail
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn detail
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn front
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn verso
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn signature
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn detail
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn detail
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn detail
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn front
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn verso
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn signature
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn detail
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn detail
Kuniysohi woodblock print Yoshitsune fighting Chohan at the inn detail

Description: Night scene of Ushiwaka Maru (牛若丸) fighting Kumasaka Chôhan (熊坂長範) and his gang at the inn (apparently in Mino province); one of whom is shining a lantern in 1174.

Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 – 1861)

Signature: Signed on all three sheets Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga (一勇斎 國芳 画)

Date: 1839-1841

Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburo

Robinson: T53

Condition: Good impression, retaining strong colours, some trimming to the right hand sheet

Price: TBC

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