Signed: Chōōro Kuniyoshi ga
朝櫻楼国芳画
Publisher: Kagaya Kichiebei (Marks 194 - seal 22-026?)
Censor's seal: kiwame
Related links: British Museum; British Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;
These are illustrated as numbesr 53a & b in Klompmakers' book Of Brigands and Bravery: Kuniyoshi's Heroes of the Suikoden, p. 135.
Shinkōtaiho Taisō (Dai Zong) helping his comrade Seishushosei Shōjō (Xiao Rang), his sword suspended from his mouth, to descend a rope hanging from the castle wall. The corpse of one of the enemy dead trapped between Taisō and a pine tree. Complete diptychs and triptychs from this set are very scarce. See Robinson, The Warrior Prints, #25 and 58.