Name: Asaina Saburo Yoshihide Wrestling Two Crocodiles at Kotsubo Beach
Brand: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Price: 3800.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
Asaina Saburo Yoshihide Wrestling Two Crocodiles at Kotsubo beach, Kamakura, Shogun Minamoto no Yoriie watching from a rock and Mount Fuji in the distance

Woodblock print, signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, artist's seal yoshikiri, published by Shimizuya Tsunejiro, 1849
Vertical oban triptych (each sheet 36.7 x 25.4cm.)

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Lot Essay

This design is Kuniyoshi's dramatic depiction of a story written by a 19th century poet who in turn based it on a 13th century tale of Shogun Yoriie commanding the strongman Asaina Saburo to perform a trial of strength with Wada Shinzaemon-no-jo Tsunemori. Asaina ends up fighting two crocodiles in the waves in an extraordinary display of his strength. See T. Clark, Kuniyoshi: From the Arthur R. Miller Collection, (Royal Academy of Arts, 2009), cat. 28, p. 81.

For another impression in the British Museum see www.britishmuseum.org museum number 2008,3037.19303.

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