Kuniyoshi Heroes of the Grand Pacification
Kuniyoshi's Taiheiki eiyuden
Elena Varshavskaya Hotei May 2006
The book introduces the print-series of Utagawa
kuniyoshi's Taiheiki eiyu den or Heroic Biographies
from the 'Tale of Grand Pacification', designed by
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), who is considered
the founder of the heroic genre in Japanese prints.
The series is devoted to the final years of the
sixteenth century civil wars and the key figure of the
day, Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536?-98).
All fifty prints of the series are reproduced in full
colour. Each print is accompanied by a translation of
the extensive texts incorporated into the composition
and detailed historical and cultural commentaries. The
introductory essay reviews the peculiarities of
Kuniyoshi’s warrior images, explores the roots of
Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s popularity and discusses the
texts in the prints as a source of information on the
late medieval warriors’ outlook and battlefield
practices.
Contents
- On Kuniyoshi’s warriors again
- Secret hero of townsmen: the image of Toyotomi
Hideyoshi in the popular culture of the Tokugawa
period
- Artful mimicry: the series title and topic
- On the path to unification: chronology of the events
represented in the series
- Series parameters
- The perfect warrior: pictorial formulae of martial
attributes
- Heroic biographies: texts in prints
- Explanatory notes
- Catalogue
192 pp., 10" x 12", 50 large format illustrations,
December 2005
CLOTH COVER $125.00
Kuniyoshi's Taiheiki eiyuden
Elena Varshavskaya Hotei May 2006
The book introduces the print-series of Utagawa
kuniyoshi's Taiheiki eiyu den or Heroic Biographies
from the 'Tale of Grand Pacification', designed by
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), who is considered
the founder of the heroic genre in Japanese prints.
The series is devoted to the final years of the
sixteenth century civil wars and the key figure of the
day, Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536?-98).
All fifty prints of the series are reproduced in full
colour. Each print is accompanied by a translation of
the extensive texts incorporated into the composition
and detailed historical and cultural commentaries. The
introductory essay reviews the peculiarities of
Kuniyoshi’s warrior images, explores the roots of
Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s popularity and discusses the
texts in the prints as a source of information on the
late medieval warriors’ outlook and battlefield
practices.
Contents
- On Kuniyoshi’s warriors again
- Secret hero of townsmen: the image of Toyotomi
Hideyoshi in the popular culture of the Tokugawa
period
- Artful mimicry: the series title and topic
- On the path to unification: chronology of the events
represented in the series
- Series parameters
- The perfect warrior: pictorial formulae of martial
attributes
- Heroic biographies: texts in prints
- Explanatory notes
- Catalogue
192 pp., 10" x 12", 50 large format illustrations,
December 2005
CLOTH COVER $125.00
Kuniyoshi
Heroes of the grand
paification
Hotei, Leiden
2005
Heroes of the grand
paification
Hotei, Leiden
2005
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