Takeshi, Ishide

歌川国芳

三国志

牡丹

In one of the Inohana old book collections held at the Inohana Branch Library, the Library of Health Sciences, there is a color print, by an ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints) artist Kuniyoshi Utagawa, depicting the "Portrayal of the Physician Kuada Scraping the Bone of Kuan Yu to treat an Arrow Wound". This print depicts one of the anecdotes about a warlord Kuan Yu in Tsuzoku Sangokushi (the Popular History of the Three Kingdoms). Kuniyoshi left many excellent art works, and his print subjects include a wide variety of areas such as warriors, beautiful women, actors, landscapes, comics and fish, even further including hanji-e (a print based on a rebus) caricaturing the government officials of that time. He was most recognized for his prints depicting warriors. Further, he was renowned as the master of warrior prints. It is deemed that an element of hanji-e may have been included in the "Portrayal of the Physician Kuada Scraping the Bone of Kuan Yu to treat an Arrow Wound".

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/900023074/KJ00004238937.pdf