Tametomo’s Military Might Drives Away the Smallpox Demons
This print depicts the fearsome and trouble-seeking twelfth-century warrior Minamoto no Tametomo. Tametomo became the subject of a best-selling serial novel called Chinsetsu yumihari-zuki (Strange Tales of the Bow Moon), by Takizawa Bakin, which was published in twenty-nine volumes between 1807 and 1811. In this novel Tametomo becomes the ruler of Okinawa, and when smallpox demons threaten he persuades them through sheer force of character to leave.
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Title
Tametomo’s Military Might Drives Away the Smallpox Demons
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Series
New forms of thirty-six ghosts
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Artist/maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 1892) (designer) -
Associated people
Minamoto no Tametomo (1139 - 1170) (subject)Sasaki Toyokichi (active c. 1885 - 1898) (publisher) -
Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
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Object type
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Dimensions
mount 55.5 x 40.3 cm (height x width)
print 35.5 x 23.7 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by George Grigs, Miss Elizabeth Grigs, and Miss Susan Messer, in memory of Derick Grigs, 1971.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1971.188
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