• Tainosuke (泰之助) killing a giant snake - from the series <i>Lives of Heroes of China and Japan</i> (<i>Wakan eiyū den</i> - 和漢英雄伝)
Tainosuke (泰之助) killing a giant snake - from the series <i>Lives of Heroes of China and Japan</i> (<i>Wakan eiyū den</i> - 和漢英雄伝)
Tainosuke (泰之助) killing a giant snake - from the series <i>Lives of Heroes of China and Japan</i> (<i>Wakan eiyū den</i> - 和漢英雄伝)
Tainosuke (泰之助) killing a giant snake - from the series <i>Lives of Heroes of China and Japan</i> (<i>Wakan eiyū den</i> - 和漢英雄伝)
Tainosuke (泰之助) killing a giant snake - from the series <i>Lives of Heroes of China and Japan</i> (<i>Wakan eiyū den</i> - 和漢英雄伝)
Tainosuke (泰之助) killing a giant snake - 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 )

Tainosuke (泰之助) killing a giant snake - 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 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)