Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)

Name: Retired Emperor Sutoku Sends his Followers to Rescue Tametomo
Brand: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Price: 7000.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 8,750

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Closed: 7 Aug 2014

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Retired Emperor Sutoku Sends his Followers to Rescue Tametomo

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)

Price Realised GBP 8,750

Closed: 7 Aug 2014

Price Realised GBP 8,750

Closed: 7 Aug 2014

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Sanuki-no-in kenzoku o shite Tametomo o sukuu zu [Retired Emperor Sutoku Sends his Followers to Rescue Tametomo]

Woodblock print, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, artist's seal yoshikiri, published by Sumiyoshiya Masagoro, 1851
Vertical oban triptych (each sheet approx. 35 x 24.2cm.)

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In this extraordinary and rare design, Kuniyoshi has ingeniously combined three episodes from the same story onto one triptych, whereby Minamoto no Tametomo (1139-70) is shipwrecked on a voyage from Kyushu to Kyoto. On the left sheet, about to commit suicide, a group of (mythical creatures in the form of half bird, half man) come to rescue him. The centre sheet shows Kiheiji, Tametomo's retainer, with Tametomo's son in his arms, on the back of a giant 'crocodile-shark'. At first the creature tried to kill them, but was pacified and rescued them from drowning. On the right sheet, Tametomo's wife, Princess Shiranui, in an unsuccessful attempt to calm the storm has thrown herself into the waves. See T. Clark, , (Royal Academy of Arts, 2009), cat. 29, p. 84-5.

For another impression in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston see www.mfa.org accession number 11.26999-7001 and for another in the British Museum, see www.britishmuseum.org museum number 1906,1220,0.1339.