• Minamoto Ushiwakamaru (源牛若丸) and Musashibō Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) fighting on Gojō Bridge [五条橋] from the series <i>Mirror of Military Excellence and Fierce Courage</i> (<i>Buei mōyū kagami</i> - 武英猛勇鏡) 
Minamoto Ushiwakamaru (源牛若丸) and Musashibō Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) fighting on Gojō Bridge [五条橋] from the series <i>Mirror of Military Excellence and Fierce Courage</i> (<i>Buei mōyū kagami</i> - 武英猛勇鏡) 
Minamoto Ushiwakamaru (源牛若丸) and Musashibō Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) fighting on Gojō Bridge [五条橋] from the series <i>Mirror of Military Excellence and Fierce Courage</i> (<i>Buei mōyū kagami</i> - 武英猛勇鏡) 

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳) (artist 01/01/1797 – 04/14/1861)

Minamoto Ushiwakamaru (源牛若丸) and Musashibō Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) fighting on Gojō Bridge [五条橋] from the series Mirror of Military Excellence and Fierce Courage (Buei mōyū kagami - 武英猛勇鏡) 

Print


ca 1835
10.25 in x 15 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese color woodblock print
Signed: Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Publisher: Iseya Sanjirō (Marks 153 - seal 22-046)
Censor's seal: kiwame
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mt. Fuji and Princess Kagiya Museum
Lyon Collection - Yoshitora's later version of this scene Minamoto no Ushiwaka Maru and Musashi-bo Benkei in combat on Gojō Bridge, bats flying across a full moon seen behind them in the upper right corner.

Ex. C. H. Mitchell and B. W. Robinson collections.

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There is an inscription in the black upper register of this print running down into the blue of the sky. However, as yet we have been unable to decipher it.

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Illustrated in a small black and white reproduction in Kuniyoshi: The Warrior Prints by B. W. Robinson, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1982, p. 108. S7.5.
Iseya Sanjirō (伊勢屋三次郎) (publisher)
warrior prints (musha-e - 武者絵) (genre)
Musashibō Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) (role)
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経) (role)
bats (komori - 蝙蝠) (genre)