About This Print
While the Tokyo Metropolitan Library references the kabuki play Hiragana Seisakuiki ひらがな盛衰記, all of the print's cartouches (see below) reference historical figures rather than any of characters in the play. Of course this is an imaginary scene, but renga (linked verse) in the title suggests a poetry session among these important Kamakura era personages.Characters as named in Cartouches (right to left)
後堀川院 Gō-Horikawa (1212-1234; r. 1221-1232), 86th emperor
北条時頼 Hōjō Tokiyori (1227-1263; r. 1246-1256), fifth regent of the Kamakura shogunate
参議頼次 Sangi (Councillor) Yoritsugu (1239-1256), fifth Seii Taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") of the Kamakura shogunate
右大臣実朝 Udaijin [minister of the right] Sanetomo (1192-1219), third shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate
大江廣元 Ōe no Hiromoto (1148-1225), a court noble and vassal of the Kamakura shogunate who contributed to the establishment of the shogunate's governmental structure
畠山重忠 Hatakeyama Shigetada (1164-1205), a "paragon of samurai virtue" of the early Kamakura period who fought in the Gempei war, originally for the Taira clan (Heike) and then for the winning Minamoto clan (Genji).
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #2266 |
| Title or Description | Illustration of the Record of the Rise and Fall [of the Heike and Genji clans] in Renga 盛衰記連歌之圖 Seisuiki renga no zu also seen translated as: A Simply Worded Record of the Rise and Fall of the Heike and Genji Clans; Poems of the Legend of Heike; A Beginner’s Version of the Rise and Fall of the Heike and the Genji Clans |
| Series | |
| Artist | Utagawa Kuniteru II (1830-1874) |
| Signature | left (right panel): 雄齋國輝画 Yūsai Kuniteru ga; center (center panel): 國輝画 Kuniteru ga; left (left panel): 雄齋國輝画 Yūsai Kuniteru ga    |
| Seal of the Artist | Toshidama seal beneath signature on left panes as shown above |
| Publication Date |  aratame censor seal 寅十改 tiger 10 |
| Publisher |  seal reading: 本 両国大平板 hon Ryōgoku Daihei han [Marks: pub. ref. 029; seal ref. 22-094] |
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| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | good - paper wrinkling; soiling; not backed; full margins |
| Genre | ukiyo-e; musha-e |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | horizontal ōban triptych |
| H x W Paper | right sheet: 14 1/2 x 9 15/16 in. (36.8 x 25.2 cm) center sheet: 14 7/16 x 9 7/8 in. (36.7 x 25.1 cm) left sheet: 14 3/8 x 9 15/16 in. (36.5 x 25.2 cm) |
| H x W Image | right sheet: 14 1/4 x 9 5/8 in. (36.2 x 24.4 cm) center sheet: 14 1/8 x 9 3/4 in. (35.9 x 24.8 cm) left sheet: 13 15/16 x 9 5/8 in. (35.4 x 24.4 cm) |
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| Collections This Print | Tokyo Metropolitan Library H021-9/東H021-009 |
5/25/2021 created
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