Kurama Tengu, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

Kurama Tengu depicts one of the foundational legends of the Minamoto clan: the young Ushiwaka — the future Yoshitsune — receiving martial arts training at Kurama Temple from a great tengu (mountain goblin) chieftain who has taken human form to teach him. The play is among the more visually striking in the Noh repertoire because of the tengu's distinctive long-nosed mask and feathered fan. Tsukioka Kōgyo's print in Nōgaku Hyaku-ban (One Hundred Noh Dramas) is catalogued by the Art Institute of Chicago as the left sheet of an ōban diptych, with the right sheet (accession 1943.833.49b) completing the composition. Published by Matsuki Heikichi between 1922 and 1926 with the museum recording an 1898/1903 state, the diptych format gave Kōgyo room to stage the full encounter between the tengu chieftain and the young Ushiwaka. The print exemplifies the documentary scope and compositional ambition of Tsukioka Kōgyo's Noh-print project.