Itahana: The Young Nobleman Ushiwakamaru
The young warrior Ushiwakamaru, later known as Minamoto no Yoshitsune, was sent to Mount Kurama as a boy by his mother’s cruel lover, Taira no Kiyomori. There he learned the secrets of martial arts from the tengu, strange creatures who lived there under the sway of their king, Sōjōbō. Ushiwakamaru became skilled at fighting. Here he is terrifying one long-nosed tengu, who covers his face, and another winged tengu who desperately tries to protect his beak from the blows of the young hero. Minamoto no Yoshitsune is also depicted on the netsuke EA2001.108.
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Title
Itahana: The Young Nobleman Ushiwakamaru
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Series
Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō Road
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Artist/maker
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer) -
Associated people
Hayashiya Shōgorō (active 1840s - 1860s) (publisher)Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - 1189) (subject) -
Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
nishiki-e (multi-block) woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
mount 55.5 x 40.4 cm (height x width)
print 36.2 x 24.7 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.
EA1971.92
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Glossary of terms
netsuke
nishiki-e
tengu
Further reading
Seaman, Joyce, Manjū: Netsuke from the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), illus. p. 226 fig. 61
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