Kiyomori’s Visit to Nunobiki Waterfall: The Ghost of Yoshihira Taking Revenge on Nanba

Utagawa Yoshifusa Japanese

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This triptych of prints features the ghost of the Minamoto warrior Yoshihira (1140–1160), also known as Akugenta, taking revenge on his murderer, Nanba Jirō (Tsunefusa), a scene based on the Tale of Heiji, an account of the civil war of the 1150s. Yoshihira’s ghost appears as fire and lightning, destroying Nanba at the center of the composition, and shooting flames at his enemy Taira no Kiyomori, who confronts him at right. Yoshifusa, a pupil of Kuniyoshi and a colleague of Yoshitoshi, continued the Utagawa school’s dramatic and bombastic presentations of warrior stories.

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Kiyomori’s Visit to Nunobiki Waterfall: The Ghost of Yoshihira Taking Revenge on Nanba, Utagawa Yoshifusa (Japanese, active 1837–1860), Triptych of woodblock-printed books (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, Japan

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