Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Ukiyo-e prints from the Ashmolean
(from 29th Sep 2010 until 27th Feb 2011)Prepare for giant spiders, dancing skeletons, winged goblins, and hordes of ghostly warriors!
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Minamoto Yoshitsune fights Benkei on Gojō Bridge, with the help of tengu demons
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Description
There are many legends about the great twelfth-century warrior Minamoto no Yoshitsune. In this episode the eighteen-year old Yoshitsune is challenged by the ferocious soldier-monk Benkei, on the Gojō Bridge in Kyoto. Despite his youth and size, Yoshitsune defeats the mighty Benkei by using the magical fighting powers he has learnt from tengu mountain demons. After this episode Benkei becomes Yoshitsune’s faithful retainer.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto › Gojō bridge (subject)
- Date
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1847 - 1850
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)
- Associated people
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Benkei (1155 - 1189) (subject)Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - 1189) (subject)
- Material and technique
- woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation) in the central and right-hand panels
- Dimensions
- 36.4 x 74 cm estimated (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 3
- Credit line
- Presented by George Grigs, Miss Elizabeth Grigs, and Miss Susan Messer, in memory of Derick Grigs, 1971.
- Accession no.
- EA1971.160
Glossary
tengu
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tengu
Tengu are powerful mountain goblins. Two types appear in Japanese art, one with a long nose, and the other with a beak and claws. One identifying feature of both is a feathered fan.
Past Exhibition
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Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Ukiyo-e prints from the Ashmolean
(from 29th Sep 2010 until 27th Feb 2011)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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