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Hakutenchō Riō (Li Ying) and Bossharan Bokukō (Mu Hong)
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Details
- Series
- One of the 108 Heroes of the Popular Water Margin
- Associated place
- Date
- 1827 - 1830
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)
- Associated people
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Kagaya Kichibei (active c. 1804 - 1880) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- woodblock
- Dimensions
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mount 55.4 x 40.4 cm (height x width)
print 38 x 26.1 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by George Grigs, Miss Elizabeth Grigs, and Miss Susan Messer, in memory of Derick Grigs, 1971.
- Accession no.
- EA1971.99
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Mitsuko Watanabe, Kuniyoshi's Heroes of China and Japan: A Selection of Warriors from Two Series of Prints and a Painting by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798 - 1861), the Suikoden of 1827 and the Taiheki of 1848-9 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003), no. 5 on pp. 9-10, illus. p. 17 pl. 5
London: Royal Academy of Arts, 21 March-7 June 2009, and New York: Japan Society, 12 March-13 June 2012, Kuniyoshi: From the Arthur R. Miller Collection, Timothy Clark. ed. (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2009), no. 6, p. 44, illus. p. 44
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Kuniyoshi’s Heroes of China and Japan
Suikoden chapter 46
Hakutenchō Riō was the head of the Dokuryūkōri (Lijia zhuang) township. Riō was an expert with a spear called kontetsutenkōsō, and carried five hitō (throwing knives) hidden away behind his armoured back. He is known to have killed an enemy a hundred yards away by throwing his hitō.
Bossharan Bokukō, born in Keiyōchin (Jiyang zhen), lived in the household of his father, Bokutaikō, who was very conservative but in contrast to his two sons who were rough and wild. Bokukō, together with the leaders of the Ryōsanpaku tried to enlist Gyokukirin Roshungi, a very wealthy pawnbroker from Peking skilled in the use of spears (tekōyari and bakutō), as the deputy commander of the Ryōsanpaku forces. In pursuit of their scheme, Bokukō, with Hakutenchō Riō and Sekihakki Ryūtō (Liu Tang) fought Roshungi, luring him deep into the mountains, by pretending to run away from him. After much fighting, they eventually persuaded him to join the Ryōsanpaku forces.
In this print, Riō and Bokukō are challenging Roshungi to fight.
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