Mitate Hakkei: Yashima Sekishō (Selection for the Eight Views: Evening Glow at Yashima)

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Mitate Hakkei: Yashima Sekishō ["Selection for the Eight Views: Evening Glow at Yashima"]

Ichiyusai [Utagawa], Kuniyoshi [illustrated by].

[Shibamishima-cho, (Tokyo)]: Wakasaya, [1846].

An unusual triptych from Kuniyoshi's Selection for the Eight Views series, featuring a scene from the Battle of Yashima of the warrior monk Benkei peering through a telescope (on the leftmost print) at Lady Tamamushi (pictured as a "close-up" in a boat on the rightmost print). Lady Tamamushi, who dared the Minamoto warriors to shoot an arrow through a fan placed on a pole far above her, is gazing up in astonishment and has dropped her fan. Nasu no Yoichi, riding his horse through the waves, has just hit the target, his arrow visible under the title panel on the right and the fan, now freed from the pole, in the eyeline of the "magnified" Lady Tamamushi. A historical adaptation of the Eight Views trope combined with a passage from the Heike Monogatari, featuring an interesting visual device.

Three loose leaves, each woodblock-printed on one side, complete. Light creases and marks. Minor wear to extremities. Small repairs to versos. Each print measures approximately 36.5 x 25 cm.

Mitate Hakkei: Yashima Sekishō (Selection for the Eight Views: Evening Glow at Yashima)
Price: $1,260.00 (USD)