• <i>Clearing Weather on Ichihara Moor</i> (<i>Ichiharano seiran</i> - 市原野晴嵐) from the series <i>Eight Views of Military Brilliance</i> (<i>Yōbu hakkei</i> - 燿武八景)
<i>Clearing Weather on Ichihara Moor</i> (<i>Ichiharano seiran</i> - 市原野晴嵐) from the series <i>Eight Views of Military Brilliance</i> (<i>Yōbu hakkei</i> - 燿武八景)
<i>Clearing Weather on Ichihara Moor</i> (<i>Ichiharano seiran</i> - 市原野晴嵐) from the series <i>Eight Views of Military Brilliance</i> (<i>Yōbu hakkei</i> - 燿武八景)
<i>Clearing Weather on Ichihara Moor</i> (<i>Ichiharano seiran</i> - 市原野晴嵐) from the series <i>Eight Views of Military Brilliance</i> (<i>Yōbu hakkei</i> - 燿武八景)
<i>Clearing Weather on Ichihara Moor</i> (<i>Ichiharano seiran</i> - 市原野晴嵐) from the series <i>Eight Views of Military Brilliance</i> (<i>Yōbu hakkei</i> - 燿武八景)
<i>Clearing Weather on Ichihara Moor</i> (<i>Ichiharano seiran</i> - 市原野晴嵐) from the series <i>Eight Views of Military Brilliance</i> (<i>Yōbu hakkei</i> - 燿武八景)
<i>Clearing Weather on Ichihara Moor</i> (<i>Ichiharano seiran</i> - 市原野晴嵐) from the series <i>Eight Views of Military Brilliance</i> (<i>Yōbu hakkei</i> - 燿武八景)
<i>Clearing Weather on Ichihara Moor</i> (<i>Ichiharano seiran</i> - 市原野晴嵐) from the series <i>Eight Views of Military Brilliance</i> (<i>Yōbu hakkei</i> - 燿武八景)
<i>Clearing Weather on Ichihara Moor</i> (<i>Ichiharano seiran</i> - 市原野晴嵐) from the series <i>Eight Views of Military Brilliance</i> (<i>Yōbu hakkei</i> - 燿武八景)
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳) (artist 11/15/1797 – 03/05/1861)

Clearing Weather on Ichihara Moor (Ichiharano seiran - 市原野晴嵐) from the series Eight Views of Military Brilliance (Yōbu hakkei - 燿武八景)

Print

ca 1836
9.5 in x 14.125 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Chōōrō Kuniyoshi ga
朝櫻樓国芳画
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon
(Marks 553- seal 22-066)
Censor's seal: kiwame
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Maizuru City Museum (via Ritsumeikan University)
British Museum
Lyon Collection Kuniyoshi of Kidōmaru hiding at Ichihara Moor
Waseda University Please click on the image and then use your mouse to enlarge the print. That dark, charcoal blob just to the left of the center of this print is not a blotch or mistake. It is the hair of the blue demon the warriors are trying to subdue or kill.

Text in the large cartouche in the upper left: 陸奥百舌鳥屋　市原の野飼の牛は鯨とも見まし薄の浪の中には　仙府千柳亭　かくれても人の心の針茸は草むらわけて狩出されけり

The warrior struggling in the lower center is Urabe no Suetake (卜部季武). He is accompanied by Kidōmaru (鬼童丸), Usui no Sadamitsu (碓井貞光) and Sakata no Kintoki (坂田公時). Minamoto no Yorimitsu (源頼光 - 948 to 1021) is in horseback in the upper left.

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The British Museum notes that the theme of this print is actually Kidōmaru's attempt kill Minamoto no Yorimitsu. There is another related print in the Lyon Collection showing Kidōmaru revealing himself from under the hide of an oxen at Ichihara Moor.

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This print in the Lyon Collection is slightly trimmed on the left side and on the bottom.

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Illustrated

1) in color in 浮世絵八華 (Ukiyo-e hakka), vol. 7 (Kuniyoshi), Heibonsha, 1985, #18.

2) in color in Kuniyoshi 国芳 by Jūzō Suzuki (鈴木重三), Heibonsha Limited, Publishers, 1992, no. 105.
Yūrei-zu (幽霊図 - ghosts demons monsters and spirits) (genre)
warrior prints (musha-e - 武者絵) (genre)
Tsuruya Kiemon (鶴屋喜右衛門) (publisher)
Kintarō (金太郎) (role)
Kidōmaru (鬼童丸) (role)