Ukiyo-e Prints

浮世絵版画

formerly Port Townsend, Washington

now Kansas City, Missouri

UTAGAWA YOSHIIKU

歌川芳幾

1833-1904

Series Title: Heroes from the Chronicles of the Taiheiki

太平記英勇傳

Date: 1867, 4th Month

Size: 9 3/4" x 7 1/4"

Publisher: Hiroya Kosuke

広岡屋幸助

There is another copy of this print in

the collection of the Universidad de Zaragoza.

$155.00

SOLD!

The text reads:

大江元就の三男たり　安芸の国沼田の城主古早川正平の養子たり　弘治元年厳島の合戦には陶が勇将弘中三河守を討　其外尼子大友の戦ひに屡々利あり　武勇のみかは智略抜群の良将なり　尓ば豊公ふかく徳とし西討に功有を以て筑前を賜ふ　後朝鮮の役に明軍をやぶる事数度　就中南大門の後備は敵味方の眠を覚させたり　

弄月亭有人記

Kobayakawa Takakage (1533-1597) founded the house of the Kobayakawa. He was a well-known warrior,

especially after the battle of Itsukushima (1555). Takakage became a prominent politician. He fought against Toyotomi Hideyoshi

and despite the rivalry, they always showed warmth and mutual respect. In 1582 he sided with him and was a member of the

Council of the Five Elders. In the scene he appears sitting in his commander's chair, in full armor, helmet and yari.

It is located next to a wooden palisade that serves to protect him.

The text is taken from a loose translation from Spanish

in a paper on the collection of the Universidad Zaragoza.