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Tametomo’s Military Might Drives Away the Smallpox Demons

  • Description

    This print depicts the fearsome and trouble-seeking twelfth-century warrior Minamoto no Tametomo. Tametomo became the subject of a best-selling serial novel called Chinsetsu yumihari-zuki (Strange Tales of the Bow Moon), by Takizawa Bakin, which was published in twenty-nine volumes between 1807 and 1811. In this novel Tametomo becomes the ruler of Okinawa, and when smallpox demons threaten he persuades them through sheer force of character to leave.

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    Associated place
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of creation)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kantō › Tōkyō prefecture › Tōkyō (place of publication)
    Date
    1890
    Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
    Artist/maker
    Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 1892) (designer)
    Associated people
    Minamoto no Tametomo (1139 - 1170) (subject)
    Material and technique
    woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
    Dimensions
    mount 55.5 x 40.3 cm (height x width)
    print 35.5 x 23.7 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed › relief print › woodcut › colour woodcut
    Object type index
    visual representation › print
    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.
    EA1971.188

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    • currently in research collection

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