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.
Details
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Artist/maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 1892) (designer) -
Associated people
Morimoto Junzaburō (1861 - 1923) (publisher)Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - 1189) (subject) -
Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1983.67.a
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Glossary of terms
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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