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Yashima Gakutei

Fan Ceng and Tomoe Gozen, 1820s

Description

Maker

  • Yashima Gakutei, 1786?-1868, Japanese

Title

Fan Ceng and Tomoe Gozen

Year

1820s

Medium

Polychrome woodblock print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink and color

Techniques

  • wood block,
  • woodcut

Supports

  • paper

Place

Japan

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of George Pierce Metcalf

Object Number

56.039.32

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Surimono from Osaka and Edo

May 23 - October 5, 2008

Marking the Occasion

September 15 - December 3, 2000

The female warrior Tomoe Gozen was Japanese. Fan Kuai (d. 189 BC; Japanese Hankei) was a Chinese follower of Liu Bang (247—195 BC), who became the first Han emperor. Fan saved the emperor’s life by getting drunk at a banquet and creating a diversion that allowed the emperor to flee from an assassin. The poems, which were composed by Asaka Katsumi, Hokusō (Baikō Kitamado or Umeyoshi), and Mochizuki Kagenari, members of the poetry group led by Tsurunoya, all allude to the Boys’ Day Festival traditionally celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The print was probably made for that festival because Hankei was considered a hero and an appropriate role model for children.

Surimono

June 9 - September 8, 1998

Private Images in Print

July 31 - September 27, 1992

Bushido

November 1, 1985 - February 9, 1986

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Fan Ceng and Tomoe Gozen with the accession number of 56.039.32. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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