Kuniyoshi Station 38, Utagawa Kuniyoshi
日本語: 木曽街道六十九次之内 福島 浦島太郎。歌川国芳作。木曽川の川辺の松の根元でたたずむ浦島太郎、亀。亀の口からは蜃気楼が吐かれていて、そのさきに蓬莱がみえる。海のない山中でおこった浦島伝説であることに注意。参照：寝覚の床。 English: Kuniyoshi Utagawa, (38.) Fukushima Station, 1852. Series:"69 stations of the Kiso-kai... More
Kusatsu LACMA M.2000.105.98. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.
日本語: 歌舞伎演目『襷廓三升伊達染』の一幕「馬斬り」の三七郎義孝（演:八代目市川團十郎）と馬士の八蔵（演:初代中村鶴蔵）の役者絵English: Japan, 1853 Series: Sixty-nine Post Stations on the Kisokaido Prints; woodcuts Color woodblock print Image: 14 3/16 x 9 1/2 in. (36.0... More
Kyoto 京都 (BM 2008,3037.14771). 19th century Japan. Public domain image...
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. The End. The monster nue descending on the imperial palace from a black cloud, surrounded by lightning; the warriors Minamoto no Yorimasa and I no Hayata in the foreground (Inset:... More
No. 1 Nihonbashi 日本橋 (BM 2008,3037.14701)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Nihonbashi Station. Ashikaga Yorikane (left) watches his bodyguard, the wrestler Narukami Katsunosuke (right) protect him from his attacker, Ukiyo Tohei on the Nihonbashi bridge (... More
No. 10 Fukaya 深谷 (BM 2008,3037.14710)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Fukaya Station. Yuriwaka Daijin proving his identity by shooting a large bow before spectators (Inset: a road with a rest house and pine trees).
No. 11 Honjo 本庄 (BM 2008,3037.14711)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Honjo Station. Shirai Gonpachi, at night in a downpour of rain after the murder of Honjo Sukedayu, a purse in his mouth, sheathing his sword. Another sword, sandal, and umbrella o... More
No. 12 Shinmachi 新町 (BM 2008,3037.14712)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Shimmachi Station. Gokumon Shobei encounters Kurofune Chuemon on a bridge (Inset: view of a mountain across a lake).
No. 13 Kuragano 倉加野 (BM 2008,3037.14713)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Kuragano Station. The bandit hero Jiraiya with two followers, one cradling the infant Tomokichi, all seated by a fire under a large pine tree (Inset: a hilly road among mountains)... More
No. 14 Takasaki 高崎 (BM 2008,3037.14714)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Takasaki Station. A Chinese interior, showing Konomura Oinosuke, the father of Ishikawa Goemon, in Chinese dress, holding an unrolled kakemono of a hawk on a pine-branch; the hawk... More
No. 15 Itahana 板花 (BM 2008,3037.14715)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Itahana Station. Ushiwaka-maru sparring with two tengu, using wooden swords (Inset: trees and a cloud-shrouded mountain).
No. 16 Annaka 安中 (BM 2008,3037.14716)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Annaka Station. Seigen the disgraced Buddhist monk, praying before a figure Fudo Myo-o, sees a vision of his beloved Sakura-hime; a servant carrying the concealed Sakura-hime in a... More
No. 17 Matsuida 松井田 (BM 2008,3037.14717)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Matsuida Station. Yamauba seated on a rock with a monkey behind Matsui Tamajiro (probably the historical Matsui Tomijiro Shigenaka) watching two snakes in a river (Inset: trees, p... More
No. 18 Sakamoto 坂本 (BM 2008,3037.14718)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Taira no Kagekiyo walking behing the child attendant of his lover, the courtesan Akoya, in Gokozaka, Kyoto (Inset: man leading a horse along a mountain road).
No. 19 Karuizawa 輕井澤 (BM 2008,3037.14719)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Karuizawa Station. The strong man Kamata Matahachi demonstrating his strength by lifting the base of a temple pillar enough to insert a sandal underneath (Inset: road among hills ... More
No. 2 Itabashi 板橋 (BM 2008,3037.14702)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Itabashi Station. Inuzuka Shino rescuing his uncle Hikiroku from drowing; Dotaro swims towards them underwater, whilst Samojiro steals the sword Murasamemaru from a boat in the ba... More
No. 20 Kutsukake 沓掛 (BM 2008,3037.14720)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Kutsukake Station. The Han hero Zhang Liang (J: Cho Ryo) returning the shoe to the magician Huang Shigong (Jp. Ko Sekiko) (Inset: mountain with a band of mist with a village in th... More
No. 21 Oiwake 追分 (BM 2008,3037.14721)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Oiwake Station. The deformed Oiwa squeezing blood from a clump of her hair onto an overturned screen, the masseur Takuestu on the left (Inset: travelers on a road amidst paddy-fie... More
No. 22 Odai 小田井 (BM 2008,3037.14722)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Odai Station. Teranishi Kanshin, his kimono patterned with skeletons, standing with an open fan by his follower Dotesuke, who has been posed in the shape of a fish to be eaten at ... More
No. 24 Shonada 塩名田 (BM 2008,3037.14724)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Shonada Station. Torii Matasuke, holding the severed head of his lord, whom he has murdered in mistaken identity, between his teeth, wringing out his loincloth after swimming acro... More
No. 25 Yawata 八幡 (BM 2008,3037.14725)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Yawata Station. Omi no Kotoda and Yawata Saburo in hunting dress, observing the hunting party of Ito Sukechika moving through the hills below them; a rainbow and light rain above ... More
No. 26 Mochizuki 望月 (BM 2008,3037.14726)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Mochizuki Station. Kaidomaru (Kintoki) with his animal playmates (a monkey and a white hare), capturing a small tengu, for which a small cage has been prepared (Inset: wooded hill... More
No. 27 Ashida 芦田 (BM 2008,3037.14727)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Ashida Station. The sorceress Nyogetsuni (later to become Takiyasha) walking through the snow performing a magic ritual, an attendant carrying a severed head attached to a branch ... More
No. 28 Nagakubo 長窪 (BM 2008,3037.14728)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Nagakubo Station. Yaoya Oshichi looks towards he seated lover, whilst holding a votive plaque that she has signed which will later beused as evidence against her (Inset: tea house... More
No. 29 Wada 和田 (BM 2008,3037.14729)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Wada Station. Wada Hyoe Hidemori, dressed as an envoy, enters Moritsuna's camp with enemy guns pointed at him (Inset: village and paddy-fields among hills).
No. 3 Warabi 蕨 (BM 2008,3037.14703)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Warabi Station. Inuyama Dosetsu, seated amidst smoke and flames, hands clasped, with magic pine-sprigs wrapped in paper in his mouth (Inset: village road).
No. 30 Shimo no Suwa 下諏訪 (BM 2008,3037.14730)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Shimo no Suwa Station. Yaegaki-hime crossing the frozen lake Suwa with the helmet of Shigen, guided by spirit foxes (Inset: conifers above a gorge, with waterfall).
No. 31 Shiojiri 塩尻 (BM 2008,3037.14731)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Shiojiri Station. Takagi Toranosuke with his wife and children looking out over the sea where a number of boats surround a trapped whale (Inset: a road between pine trees leading ... More
No. 32 Seba 洗馬 (BM 2008,3037.14732)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Seba Station. Musashibo Benkei carries the captive Tosabo Shoshun before him on his horse (Inset: green landscape with a wooded hill and a band of mist).
No. 33 Motoyama 本山 (BM 2008,3037.14733)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Motoyama Station.Yamauba dancing through dark mountains on a magical clous, holding a fan (Inset: village under a hill with a band of mist).
No. 34 Niekawa 贄川 (BM 2008,3037.14734)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Niekawa Station. Takenouchi no sukune defeating his deceitful brother Umashuichi no Sukune in a trial by ordeal of boiling water (Inset: three travelers approaching a bridge, with... More
No. 35 Narai 奈良井 (BM 2008,3037.14735)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Narai Station. Zenkichi, in travelling dress, parting from Oruku at her comb shop (Inset: hilly landscape with golden mist).
No. 36 Yabuhara 薮原 (BM 2008,3037.14736)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Yabuhara Station. Sue Harukata (the historical Akechi Mitsuhide), armoured and mounted, cuts through a bamboo grove (Inset: landscape with travelers, hills, and a distant village).
No. 37 Miyanokoshi 宮の越 (BM 2008,3037.14737)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Miyanokoshi Station. Prince Moriyoshi with an court lady seated at the mouth of a cave reading Buddhist scriptures; Fuchibe Yoshihiro looks on, preparing for the Prince's assassin... More
No. 38 Fukushima 福島 (BM 2008,3037.14738)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Fukushima Station. Urashima Taro on the shore under a pine tree with a tortoise, from whose mouth issues a vision of the Dragon Palace (Inset: a descending road between steep wooded hills).
No. 39 Agematsu 上松 (BM 2008,3037.14739)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Agematsu Station. Eda Genzo, a retainer of, in a pine tree near Horikawa palace, watching the lanterns of Soshun's men approaching through the night mist (Inset: hill with pine tr... More
No. 4 Urawa 浦和 (BM 2008,3037.14704)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Urawa Station. The heavily tattooed fishseller Danshichi Kurobei empties a bucket of water over himself to clean off the mud and blood from the murder of Giheji, who lies on the g... More
No. 40 Suwara 須原 (BM 2008,3037.14740)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Suwara Station. The poet Ariwara no Narihira eloping with Lady Nijo, whom he carries through long grasses, pursuers with torches in the background (Inset: a mountain pass).
No. 41 Nojiri 野尻 (BM 2008,3037.14741)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Nojiri Station. Hirai (Fujiwara) Yasumasa playing the flute among rushes, with Hakamadare Yasusuke hiding behind a tree and holding a drawn sword in the foreground (Inset: a mount... More
No. 42 Mitono 三留野 (BM 2008,3037.14742)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Mitono Station. Mitono Kotaro in combat with a gang of bandits disguised as figures from a Buddhist hell (Inset: village among pine-trees and paddy-fields, with a mountain behind).
No. 43 Tsumagome 妻籠 (BM 2008,3037.14743)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Tsumago (Tsumagome) Station. Abe no Yasuna entering a room to discover the true form of his wife, the fox-woman Kuzunoha, as she takes tearful leave of their child, Abe no Seimei ... More
No. 44 Ochiai 落合 (BM 2008,3037.14745)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Ochiai Station. The Daoist immortal Kume Sennin falls from the sky and loses his magic upon seeing a young woman washing her clothes in a river (Inset: road descending to a villag... More
No. 45 Magome 馬籠 (BM 2008,3037.14744)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Magome Station.bTakebayashi Tadashichi enduring the rude behaviour of a horse-driver whilst on his way to take part in the vendetta attack (Inset: hilly road with a band of pink mist).
No. 46 Nakatsugawa 中津川 (BM 2008,3037.14746)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Nakatsugawa Station. Horibe Yasubei's wife and daughter watch from a pine grove as Yasubei takes revenge for his uncle's murder (not shown) (Inset: travelers in the plain between ... More
No. 47 Oi 大井 (BM 2008,3037.14747)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Oi Station. The robber Ono Sadakuro with a tattered umbrella calling after Yoichibei in the rain (Inset: a traveler leading a horse in front of a tea house and distant mountains)(no. 47).
No. 48 Musa 武佐 (BM 2008,3037.14767)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Musa Station. Miyamoto Musashi suspended over a chasm in a primitive cable car, raises his sword to strike an enormous bat (Inset: travelers in open country approaching a village).
No. 48 Okute 大久手 (BM 2008,3037.14748)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Okute Station. The ild woman of the Hitsotsuya inn holding a knife, struggles with her daughter. An apparition of the thousand armed Kannon in the background (Inset: a wide road l... More
No. 49 Hosokute 細久手 (BM 2008,3037.14749)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Hosokute Station. Horikoshi Masatomo (the historical Hotta Masanobu) tormented on his sickbed by ghosts (Inset: a road between pine trees with green mountains in the background).
No. 5 Omiya 大宮 (BM 2008,3037.14705)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Omiya Station. The captive rebel Abe no Muneto kneeling before court ministers, one of whom holds a spray of plum-blossom, with the palace behind (Inset: a roadside teahouse in the rain).
No. 50 Mitake 御嶽 (BM 2008,3037.14750)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Mitake Station. Kagekiyo carrying a naginata, stands on the shoulder of the Great Buddha of Todaiji, the pagoda in the background (Inset: mist among the mountains and huts by a river).
No. 51 Fushimi 伏見 (BM 2008,3037.14751)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Fushimi Station. Tokiwa Gozen sheltering her three children from a snow storm, the head of the infant Yoshitsune visible under her robes (Inset: road past a tea house, paddy field... More
No. 52 Ota 太田 (BM 2008,3037.14752)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Ota Station. Amagawaya Gihei seizing his father-in-law Ryochiku by his coat collar in a moonlit street (Inset: tree-bordered road amid hills).
No. 53 Unuma 鵜沼 (BM 2008,3037.14753)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Unuma Station. The farmer Yoemon murdering his deformed wife Kasane with a sickle under a willow tree on the river bank, her spirit rising and taking shape above him. A figure wat... More
No. 54 Kano 加納 (BM 2008,3037.14754)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Kano Station. The Buddhist acolyte Tamiya Botaro and his nurse Otsuji in a strong wind beside a lotus pond (Inset: an ascending road between banks and pine trees).
No. 55 Godo 河渡 (BM 2008,3037.14755)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Godo Station. A woman washing clothes watches a group of blind men crossing a river (Inset: pine trees and a distant mountain).
No. 56 Mieji 美江寺 (BM 2008,3037.14756)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Mieji Station. Three women drinking sake surrounded by autumn leaves (Inset: hill road ascending from a rest house between banks of pines).
No. 57 Akasaka 赤坂 (BM 2008,3037.14757)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Akasaka Station. Empress Komyo Kogo washing a deformed beggar, an incarnation of Amida Buddha (Inset: road across paddy-fields with cherry blossoms and a distant mountain).
No. 58 Tarui 垂井 (BM 2008,3037.14758)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Tarui Station. The boy Sarunosuke (the adolescent Toyotomi Hideyoshi) tying an infant to a well (Inset: wooded hillside, roof-tops, and distant mountains).
No. 59 Sekigahara 關ヶ原 (BM 2008,3037.14759)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Sekigahara Station. The rival wrestlers Hanaregoma Chokichi and Nuregami Chogoro in a street-brawl amongst rubble (Inset: travellers in a mountain landscape).
No. 6 Ageo 上尾 (BM 2008,3037.14706)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Ageo Station. The courtesan Takao's weight being measure in gold, so that Ashikaga Yorikane might buy her out of her contract; a man and a woman look on in astonishment (Inset: a ... More
No. 60 Imasu 今須 (BM 2008,3037.14760)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Imasu Station. The Soga brothers, with drawn swords, entering the tent of their father's murderer, Kudo Suketsune. (Inset: travelers with loaded pack horse approaching a village).
No. 61 Kashiwabara 柏原 (BM 2008,3037.14761)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Kashiwabara Station. Kasaya Sankatsu in the street with Kasamatsu Heizo carrying her luggage (Inset: travelers on the road, pine trees, and distant mountains).
No. 62 Samegai 醒ヶ井 (BM 2008,3037.14762)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Samegai Station. Kanai Tanigoro attacking a giant lizard over a snowy precipice with a bamboo spear, a woman hides behind him with one arm raised (Inset: a mountain in mist with w... More
No. 63 Banba 番場 (BM 2008,3037.14763)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Bamba Station. The Otsu-e painter Domori ("stammerer") Matabei on lookout duty (his wife behind him) outside the house of his master, Tosa Shogen, who is listening to a story from... More
No. 64 Toriimoto 鳥居本 (BM 2008,3037.14764)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Toriimoto Station. An old man dressed in rags and a straw head-covering stealing lamp oil from a lantern in a shrine, watched by Taira no Tadamori (Inset: travelers on a road in o... More
No. 65 Takamiya 高宮 (BM 2008,3037.14765)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Takamiya Station. Kamiya Iemon fishing, a figure approaching in the distance (Inset: paddy-fields and distant hills, a large pine tree in the foreground).
No. 66 Echikawa 越川 (BM 2008,3037.14766)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Echikawa Station. Saginoike Heikuro, watched by a foot soldier, washing his great battle axe in a stream; three severed heads beside him (Inset: farmhouse and paddy-fields).
No. 67 Kusatsu 草津 (BM 2008,3037.14768)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Kusatsu Station. The actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII in the role of Ashikaga Yoshitaka, looking down at a packhorse driver as he leads the horse carrying the ruler's gold away (Inset:... More
No. 68 Moriyama 守山 (BM 2008,3037.14769)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Moriyama Station. The Indian monk Bodhidharma (Jp. Daruma) eating mounded dishes of soba noodles in a riverside noodle shop, a shop assistant watching in disbelief (Inset: travele... More
No. 7 Okegawa 桶川 (BM 2008,3037.14707)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Okegawa Station. Tamaya Shimbei imprisoned in a barrel outside the pleasure quarter, being given a cup of sake by a female attendant under the direction of the courtesan Kojoro, t... More
No. 70 Otsu 大津 (BM 2008,3037.14770)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Otsu Station. Koman swimming across lake Biwa with the white banner of the Minamoto in her mouth; Taira soldiers in the background (Inset mountains between Otsu and Kyoto).
No. 9 Konosu 鴻巣 (BM 2008,3037.14708)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Konosu Station. Musashi no Kami Moroano (Ko no Moronao, the historical Kira Yoshinaka) being taken through the snow to a hiding place (Inset: roadside village and distant hills).
No. 9 Kumagaya 熊谷 (BM 2008,3037.14709)
Woodblock print, oban tate-e. Kumagaya Station. Kojiro Naoie, armoured and mounted at the base of a castle wall (Inset: road-scene with porters carrying a palanquin).
Shimo Suwa- Yaegaki-hime (BM 1948,0410,0.113 1), Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Woodblock print.(69 Stations of the Kisokaido Highway). No.30. Yaegaki-hime dancing with the helmet of Shingen while ghost foxes dance behind her. Signed; sealed; inscribed.
Shimo Suwa- Yaegaki-hime (BM 1948,0410,0.113)
Woodblock print.(69 Stations of the Kisokaido Highway). No.30. Yaegaki-hime dancing with the helmet of Shingen while ghost foxes dance behind her. Signed; sealed; inscribed.
Kuniyoshi Taiba (The End). 19th century Japan. Public domain image.
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Kuniyoshi Station 33 - A woman in a kimono is holding a fan
The print depicts Yama-uba as a young court dancer with open fan descending on a cloud.
Kuniyoshi Utagawa, Suhara, Utagawa Kuniyoshi
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Kuniyoshi Utagawa, Urawa 2, Utagawa Kuniyoshi
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Kuniyoshi-69tsugi10-Fukaya-Yuriwak-MFA Boston Bigelow coll
having released his bow, set in en:Fukaya-shuku (Kuniyoshi's series on 69 stations of the en:Kiso-kaidō). Legend usually associates him with Kyushu where he was governor, and he was famed for iron bow, not a w... More
Kuniyoshi Utagawa, Warabi, Utagawa Kuniyoshi
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