Fine Japanese Prints

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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 62. Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) | Benkei's Heroic Strength: Playfully Dragging the Bell of Mii Temple up Mt. Hiei (Benkei ga yuriki tawamure ni Miidera no tsurigane o Eizan e hikiaguru zu) | Edo period, 19th century.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) | Benkei's Heroic Strength: Playfully Dragging the Bell of Mii Temple up Mt. Hiei (Benkei ga yuriki tawamure ni Miidera no tsurigane o Eizan e hikiaguru zu) | Edo period, 19th century

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)

Benkei's Heroic Strength: Playfully Dragging the Bell of Mii Temple up Mt. Hiei

(Benkei ga yuriki tawamure ni Miidera no tsurigane o Eizan e hikiaguru zu)

Edo period, 19th century 


woodblock print, triptych, signed to the left and right sheets Ichiryusai Kuniyoshi ga, with artist's paulownia seal, censor's seals Mura (Murata Heiemon) published by Ibaya Senzaburo (Dansendo), circa 1845-46


Vertical oban triptych: each sheet approx. 35.3 x 24.6 cm., 14 x 9¾ in. 

Benkei dragging off the great bell of Miidera up Mt. Hiei, watched by Yoshitsune in the background.


For an example of the right sheet in the collection of the British Museum, museum number 2008,3037.20508, go to: 

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2008-3037-20508