PAUL BINNIE 

 2015


NOVEMBER

                 
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Minamoto no Ushiwakamaru (源牛若丸都)
 
Print Date: 11/2015
Print Title: Ushiwakamaru to Benkei (牛若丸と弁慶)
Personal Collection (A/P)

Note:  This print was commissioned for an exhibition at
the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, in
Massachusetts.  The design was made to fit with a
bottom sheet from a Utagawas school diptych that
showed the samurai's legs.  The tattoo is based on a
painting by Torii (VIII) Kotondo (鳥居言人).  This scene
appears in plays and dances such as Kiichi Hôgen
Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻) and Hashi Benkei
(橋辨慶).
 
 
 
 
 

 



                 
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Minamoto no Ushiwakamaru (源牛若丸都)
 
Print Date: 11/2015
Print Title: Ushiwakamaru to Benkei (牛若丸と弁慶)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#20/50)

Note:  This was a commercially-released variant of the
Amherst commission.