three separate sheets; giant demon at center, with wrinkled ghoulish face with bulging eyes and gaping mouth, and bare arms, reaching down twoard group of men in armor armed with swords at left, right, and center, with one man beheath demon's PR arm, near demon's face; women and smaller ghouls at left and right running away; grey-green ground

Picture of Raikō and his Four Companions Conquering the Demon of Mount Ōe, 1864, 10th lunar month

From right to left: Ukyō Gon-no-daibu Fujiwara Yasumasa, Takiguchi Utoneri Watanabe Tsuna, Kageyu Jikan Urabe Suetake (R); Sesshū Ason Minamoto Yorimitsu, Yugei-no-jō Usui Sadamitsu (C); Shume Sakata Kintoki. R: 右京権大夫藤原保昌, 滝口内舎人渡辺綱, 勘解由次官卜部季武; C: 摂州朝臣源頼光, 靱屓尉碓井定光; L: 主馬佐酒田公時.

Details
Title
Picture of Raikō and his Four Companions Conquering the Demon of Mount Ōe
Artist Life
1839 - 1892
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.106.51a-c
Catalogue Raisonne
Keyes, Courage and Silence (1982), no. 117; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), p. 18–19 no. 18, p. 298.
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three separate sheets; giant demon at center, with wrinkled ghoulish face with bulging eyes and gaping mouth, and bare arms, reaching down twoard group of men in armor armed with swords at left, right, and center, with one man beheath demon's PR arm, near demon's face; women and smaller ghouls at left and right running away; grey-green ground