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Gōtenrai Ryōshin (Ling Zhen)
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Details
- Series
- One of the 108 Heroes of the Popular Water Margin
- Associated place
- Date
- 1827 - 1830
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)
- Associated people
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Kagaya Kichibei (active c. 1804 - 1880) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- Woodblock
- Dimensions
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mount 55.5 x 40.4 cm (height x width)
print 38 x 26.1 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by George Grigs, Miss Elizabeth Grigs, and Miss Susan Messer, in memory of Derick Grigs, 1971.
- Accession no.
- EA1971.100
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Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Mitsuko Watanabe, Kuniyoshi's Heroes of China and Japan: A Selection of Warriors from Two Series of Prints and a Painting by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798 - 1861), the Suikoden of 1827 and the Taiheki of 1848-9 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003), no. 4 on p. 9, illus. p. 16 pl. 4
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Kuniyoshi’s Heroes of China and Japan
Suikoden chapter 59
Gōtenrai Ryōshin was born in Enryō (Yanling). He was an expert artilleryman and maker of cannonballs, mastering many military arts including horsemanship and archery. Gōtenrai, which means ‘artillery fire reaching the heavens’, was the second messenger under the command of Kōjoko in Tōkei (Dong jing). He was skilled in several types of cannon such as those called Fūkahō, Kinrinhō, and Gōteihō all of which had a significant fire power and all appear in the Suikoden. In his battle against the Ryōsanpaku forces, he confused his enemy by firing three cannonballs in rapid succession, one directly at the forces breaking their camp of Chōshinan (Yazuitan) and two towards the water. This caused great confusion in the ranks of the Ryōsanpaku forces. However, he later became a member of the Ryōsanpaku
In this print, Ryōshin has just shot a cannonball at the Ryōsanpaku forces and is about to fire another, holding a flaming linstock in his hand.
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