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Saijinki Kakusei (Guo Sheng)
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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 print, with bokashi (tonal gradation)
- Dimensions
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mount 55.3 x 40.4 cm (height x width)
print 36.2 x 25.4 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.
- EA1971.94
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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. 8 on p. 10, illus. p. 20 pl. 8
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 34
Saijinki Kakusei was from Karyō of Seisen (Xichuan Jialing) and was a mercury seller traveling throughout the provinces for his trade. As with Ryohō, he learnt the art of the use of the hōtengeki. One day his boat was capsized by the wind in Kōga (Huang he), and although he escaped death, he was unable to return home. While wondering what to do, Kakusei heard about the robber Ryohō, who also used hōtengeki, and decided to meet him at the foot of Taiei-zan (Duiying shan). They then began fighting but were equally strong (see Ryohō).
This print shows Kakusei armed with his spear on a plunging horse with a banner depicting a Pegasus-like horse. This forms the left part of the diptych while Ryohō's portrait forms the right (9) [EA1971.95].
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