Minamoto no Yorimitsu kokan Tsuchigumo saku yokai zu Utagawa Kuniyoshi
, 1843, large-format nishiki-e (three-panel series),
from the Edo period, Edo period print run Ibasen.
One of the most popular animated cartoons today is the story of the extermination of demons.
The tale of the extermination of demons is a story that has been passed down from generation to generation. Many yokai also appear in the Edo period ukiyoe "Minamoto no Yorimitsu kokan tsuchigumosaku yokai zu" introduced by the publisher Ibasen.
This painting depicts Minamoto no Yorimitsu, who is said to have exterminated the Shuten Doji (Tsuchigumo) on Mt. Oe, being bewildered by the Tsuchigumo yokai. Although there are other paintings of the extermination of demons on Mt. The pattern of Yorimitsu's wobbly kimono is a sheath-shaped pattern, which means that the 12th shogun, Iekei Tokugawa, was the one in charge of the Tokugawa shogunate. The common people of Edo, who had grown weary of Mizuno's prohibition policy, began to buy these ukiyo-e prints in droves.
Also, there are checkered, Asano-ha deisign, arrow-gasuri, and scaly patterns as kimono patterns of the Taisho period.
{In Ibasen's folding fan collection, we also have folding fan of kimono ground, "checkered" and "uroko" patterns. Uroko" in particular is known as a design to ward off evil and evil spirits.
