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Chūsenko Teitokuson (Ding Desun)
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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 40.3 cm (height x width)
print 38.4 x 25.6 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.
- EA1971.46
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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. 7 on p. 10, illus. p. 19 pl. 7
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. 10, p. 51, illus. p. 51
Glossary
Ding
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Ding
A Chinese bronze tripod ritual cooking vessel. Also a type of white porcelain from Northern China.
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 69
Chūsenko Teitokuson was born in Bashō-fu (Dongchang fu). He was master of the use of a particular type of sword called a hisa, while riding a horse. At the battle of Kyūshū, his army was attacked by an enemy during a night raid, and Teitokuson was bitten by a poisonous snake in a bush near Renshūon during the counterattack. The poison spread to his stomach and caused him to suffer a painful death.
In this print, the enormous snake is surrounding his body while Teitokuson is trying to strike the snake with his sword using both hands.
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