Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010


Utagawa Kuniyoshi
(1797 – 1861)

Honchô Suikoden gôyû happyaku-nin no hitori
本朝水滸伝剛勇八百人一個
Eight Hundred Heroes of Our Country’s Suikoden, One by One

Ôanamuchi-no-mikoto killing the monstrous eagle that had been attacking passing ships.

Publisher: Kaga-ya Kichiyemon
Date: c. 1830 (whole series between c.1830-36)
Lit: B.W. Robinson "Warrior Prints", S4a.10
B. W. Robinson, Kuniyoshi (Victoria and Albert, London, 1961), pl.10