• Wada Heita Tanenaga (和田平太胤長) impaling a giant python with a polearm - from the series <i>Lives of Heroes of China and Japan</i> (<i>Wakan eiyū den</i> - 和漢英雄伝)
Wada Heita Tanenaga (和田平太胤長) impaling a giant python with a polearm - from the series <i>Lives of Heroes of China and Japan</i> (<i>Wakan eiyū den</i> - 和漢英雄伝)
Wada Heita Tanenaga (和田平太胤長) impaling a giant python with a polearm - from the series <i>Lives of Heroes of China and Japan</i> (<i>Wakan eiyū den</i> - 和漢英雄伝)
Wada Heita Tanenaga (和田平太胤長) impaling a giant python with a polearm - from the series <i>Lives of Heroes of China and Japan</i> (<i>Wakan eiyū den</i> - 和漢英雄伝)
Wada Heita Tanenaga (和田平太胤長) impaling a giant python with a polearm - from the series <i>Lives of Heroes of China and Japan</i> (<i>Wakan eiyū den</i> - 和漢英雄伝)
Wada Heita Tanenaga (和田平太胤長) impaling a giant python with a polearm - from the series <i>Lives of Heroes of China and Japan</i> (<i>Wakan eiyū den</i> - 和漢英雄伝)
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Utagawa Kuniteru I (歌川国輝) (artist )

Wada Heita Tanenaga (和田平太胤長) impaling a giant python with a polearm - from the series Lives of Heroes of China and Japan (Wakan eiyū den - 和漢英雄伝)

Print

1847 – 1848
9.75 in x 14.5 in (Overall dimensions) Japanese woodblock print
Signed: Kuniteru ga (国輝画)
Publisher: Shimizuya Tsunejirō
(Marks 469 - seal 23-043)
Censor's seals: Muramatsu and Yoshimura
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - a remarkably similar print from this same series
Lyon Collection - Ca. 1806 Shuntei version "The "uwabami", Python, the name of fabulously large snakes that people the wilderness of the countryside, has given birth to many stories. Once there was an uwabami, so big that it was capable of devouring rider and horse in one swallow. After it had done so for a long time, the hero Egara Heida... killed it."

The Animal in Far Eastern Art: And Especially in the Art of the Japanese Netzsuke, with References to Chinese Origins, Traditions, Legends, and Art by T. Volker, p. 146.
Shimizuya Tsunejirō (清水屋常次郎) (publisher)
warrior prints (musha-e - 武者絵) (genre)
Yūrei-zu (幽霊図 - ghosts demons monsters and spirits) (genre)