Posted by Richard Illing on April 29, 1998 at 15:14:14:
In Reply to: Searching for print posted by JSP on April 28, 1998 at 10:45:58:
: I am searching for any information on( and the print) that depicts a standing samuari in full battle regalia with a dragon wrapped around him as a border. He is not fighting the dragon and it is as if he is standing within the circle of the dragon with the dragons head in front of his lower legs.I have no history of this print I just recall seeing it and being enthralled by it.
I believe that you are looking for the Kunisada print of Koso or Gaozu (Han Kao-tsu) confronting a dragon. A full-size colour illustration appears in my 'Japanese Prints 1700-1900' published by Phaidon in 1976. A smaller, black & white illustration appears in Izzard, S. 'Kunisada's World' 43/1. published by Japan Society Inc in 1993.