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triptych print
Description
English: Colour woodblock print, triptych. Princess Takiyasha summoning a skeleton spectre to frighten Mitsukuni at her father Taira Masakado's ruined palace at Soma. Signed, sealed, marked and inscribed.
Depicted people Representation of: Takiyasha-hime (瀧夜叉姫)
Date circa 1844
date QS:P571,+1844-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions

Height: 37 centimetres (each sheet)

Width: 25 centimetres (each sheet)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1915,0823,0.915-916
Notes

Smith et al 1990

Kuniyoshi's sweeping panoramic compositions use the wide format of the triptych print in a revolutionary way.

Until his defeat and destruction in AD 939, the provincial warlord Taira no Masakado had established himself as the head of a rival 'Eastern Court' in Shimosa Province, in open rebellion against the legitimate court in Kyoto. The scene here is Masakado's ruined palace of Soma, inhabited after his death by his daughter Princess Takiyasha (left), a sorceress. She is reading an incantation to summon up a terrifying monster skeleton to drive away the warrior Oya no Taro Mitsukuni (kneeling, centre left), who has been sent by the court to investigate any surviving conspirators.

Kuniyoshi is said to have possessed a reference collection of imported Western prints and he has doubtless copied some Western medical illustration to produce this harrowingly accurate depiction of the skeleton, as it rips away the tattered court blinds with its bony fingers to menace Mitsukuni.

The story of Mitsukuni and Princess Takiyasha was made into a Kabuki play in 1836, performed again in another version in 1844. It has been suggested that Kuniyoshi produced this essentially 'historical' treatment of the episode to cater to public interest caused by the Kabuki performance of 1844, for the Tempo Reforms had made it for the time being illegal for artists to depict actors or theatrical scenes directly in colour woodblock prints.

FURTHER READING

Robinson, B. W., 'Kuniyoshi: The Warrior Prints', Oxford, Phaidon, 1982.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1915-0823-0-915-916
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