Minneapolis Institute of Art
Picture of Hakamadare Yasusuke and Kidōmaru Competing with Magic
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Carver: Takimoto Chokuzan; Publisher: Daikokuya HeikichiLinkedCulture matchlcp-963beb5d485a
- Date
- September 1887
- Medium
- Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 127898
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
According to Japanese folklore, Kidōmaru was an ogre who lived on Mount Ōe, northwest of Kyoto. The novelist Takizawa Bakin (Kyokutei; 1767–1848), in his book Strange Records of the Four Heavenly Kings and a Plundering Thief (Shitennō shōtō iroku), has Kidōmaru meet the thief Hakamadare Yasusuke. In a cave in the mountains, the two embark on a magic competition to compare their techniques. Hakamadare is towering in the air, standing on a snake he commands, while Kidōmaru is sitting below him on a rock, wrapped pine-sprigs in his mouth, sending out an attack of his tengu (mountain goblins). Asia
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- The Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, gifts of various donors, by exchange, and gift of Edmond Freis in memory of his parents, Rose and Leon Freis
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