1827-1830
2012.30
Not currently on view
14-15/16 x 10-1/16 in. (image and sheet)
Signed by artist: Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi ga Publisher's mark: Kaga-ya Kichiemon (Seiseidō) Censor's seal: circular kiwame Inscribed, reads: Originally from Yanling, he served in the Eastern Capital and was skilled in archery and horsemanship and the top expert in cannonballs (pyrotechnics). [He prepared three kinds of fireballs], the first called wind fireball, the second called golden wheel fireball and the third called zimu (child and mother) fireball, each being greatly effective. First he fired them in succession destroying the forces on Duck's Bill Beach in the Lingshan Marsh and then at those who had been thrown into the water, greatly punishing the enemy.
Jane Weldon Myers Acquisition Fund
Asian Art (Japanese and Korean)
Private collector, Seattle; (Jerry Vegder, Prints of Japan, Port Townsend, Washington); purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2012.
轟天雷 凌振
The text reads: “Originally from Yanling, [Ryōshin (Líng Zhèn)] served in the Eastern Capital and was skilled in archery and horsemanship and the top expert in cannonballs (pyrotechnics). [He prepared three kinds of fireballs], the first called ‘wind fireball,’ the second called ‘golden wheel fireball,’ and the third called ‘zimu (child and mother) fireball’ [a single large fireball that split into forty-nine lesser ones], each being greatly effective. First he fired them in succession, destroying the forces on Duck’s Bill Beach in the Liangshan Marsh, and then at those who had been thrown into the water, greatly punishing the enemy.”
Here Ryōshin is bombarding the Liangshan outlaws. He was later persuaded by them to leave the imperial army and to join their cause. His heroic stature and savage expression contrast nicely with the intricate, lacelike treatment of the cannon smoke.
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