Lot 774
- 774
UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861) SIX PRINTS FROM DIFFERENT SERIES
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comprising Minamoto no Yoshinaka sending oxen with flaming straw attached to their horns against the panicked Taira warriors in the Battle of Kurikaradani, no. 28, from the series Courageous Leaders in Thirty-six Battles; Kshiwade no Omihakobi killing the Korean tiger that had devoured his daughter, from the series Eight Hundred Heroes of Our Country’s Suikoden; Zhou Cang, from the series Heroes of the Popular History of the Three Kingdoms; Minamoto no Tametomo at the age of thirteen, catching arrows shot at him in a competition with Shonagon Nyudo Shinsei, no. 1, from the series Ten Famous Excellences of Tametomo; Byout-suchi Sonryu threatening a foe with his sword and Ju-unryû Kôsonshô holding up a short sword, from the series The 108 Heroes of the popular Suikoden