triptych print
Beneath a full moon, the agile young Minamoto no Yoshitsune, trained in martial arts by the tengu demons, leaps over the warrior-monk Benkei’s halberd on the Gojō Bridge in Kyoto. Benkei, who is collecting by force 1000 swords from innocent passers-by, has met his match. He has managed to remove Yoshitsune’s white silk overgarment used as a disguise, but cannot defeat the youth. Benkei was so impressed with the young warrior, that he swore allegiance to Yoshitsune and they remained inseparable until death. This scene is also depicted on the netsuke EA2001.51.
Details
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Artist/maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 1892) (designer) -
Associated people
Benkei (1155 - 1189) (subject)Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - 1189) (subject)Morimoto Junzaburō (1861 - 1923) (publisher) -
Object type
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No. of items
3
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Museum location
refer to individual records
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1983.67
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Glossary of terms
netsuke
tengu
Further reading
Seaman, Joyce, Manjū: Netsuke from the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), illus. p. 236 fig. 62
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