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One of 200 prints issued as part of the series Nōga taikan (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays) depicting a scene from the play Settai by the playwright Miyamasu (1482-1556).

The Play - Settai

Source: A Guide to No, P.G. O'Neill, Hinoki Shoten, 1929, p. 157-158.

The old mother of Saitō Tsuginobu, one of Yoshitsune's retainers who sacrificed himself for his master at the battle of Yashima, hears that Yoshitsune and his men are escaping dressed as yamabushi priests.  She therefore puts up a notice offering hospitality to priests in the hope that they will call on her.  They do so and after the old woman has obviously realised who they are and Tsuginobu's child has been to Yoshitsune to ask him to return his father, they admit their identity.  They then describe the bravery and devotion shown in the battle by Tsuginobu and his younger brother Tadanobu.  Hopitality is then provided during which the child serves them with wine just as if his father were there looking on.  When Yoshtsune and his men make ready to leave, the boy pleads to be allowed to go with them, but as this is impossible, in tears he and the old lady watch the party leave.

Print Details

IHL Catalog	#122
Title	Settai 摂待 (The Welcome)
Series	Nōga taikan 能画大鑑 (Encyclopedia of Noh Plays or A Great Mirror of Noh Pictures or A Great Collection of Noh Pictures)
Artist	Tsukioka Kōgyo (1869-1927)
Signature	Kōgyo
Seal	Kōgyo seal
Date	c. 1926-1927
Edition	unknown
Publisher	Seibi Shoten (or Seibi Shoin), Tokyo
Carver	Uchida Eikichi
Printer	Yoshida Takesaburō
Impression	excellent
Colors	excellent
Condition	good -  wrinkling; several spots of foxing; margins slightly trimmed; not backed
Genre	ukiyo-e
Miscellaneous
Format	oban yoko-e
H x W Paper	9 7/8 x 14 in. (25.1 x 35.6 cm)
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