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The warrior Menju Sōsuke Ieteru fighting to retrieve his lord's battle standard
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Details
- Series
- Tales of Heroes of the Chronicles of the Great Peace
- Associated place
- Date
- 1847 - 1850
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)Ryūkatei Tanekazu (1804 - 1858) (author)
- Associated people
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Yamamotoya Heikichi (active early 19th century - 1886) (publisher)Menjū Sōsuke Ieteru (died 1583) (subject)Murata Heiemon (active 1843 - 1853) (censor)Mera Ta’ichirō (active c. 1848 - 1853) (censor)
- Material and technique
- woodblock
- Dimensions
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mount 55.5 x 40.4 cm (height x width)
sheet 36.1 x 25 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.
- EA1971.105
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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. 17 on p. 12, illus. p. 29 pl. 17
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
Menjō Ieteru, ?-1583 (here Menju Sōsuke Ieteru) became a page of Shibata Katsuie at the age of twelve. At the battle of Ise Nagashima, the golden gohei standard of Katsuie was seized by the enemy. Ieteru, then only sixteen years old, asking Katsuie not to risk his own life, retrieved the gohei from the enemy lines and safely brought it back. Katsuie was so pleased that he decided to give part of his name ‘le’ to Ieteru. Later, Ieteru often acted as a double (kagemusha) for Katsuie holding the golden gohei standard in order to deceive his enemies.
This print shows Ieteru fighting furiously against many enemies, only depicted here by their spears, swords and arrows, trying to retrieve the standard.
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