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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)

T09

Title: Toki-uji.
Akechi Mitsuhide 1528 -1582.

Series: Taiheiki Eiyuden, Heldengeschichten.
Signature: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga.
Censor's seal: Mera-Murata.

Publisher: Yamamoto-ya Heikichi.

Date: 1848/49, Edo.
Size: Ôban, 35,5 x 24,5 cm.

Subject: Nobunagaki & Taikoki
(Chronicle of Nobunaga and Taiko Hideyoshi).
Text: Ryukatei Tanekazu, 1807-1858.

Literature: Kuniyoshi - Taiheiki Eiyuden, 1992, Nº 9; Robinson, B.W., Warrior-Prints, 1982, Nº 47.

€ 690,-


Aketchi Mitsuhide was a native of Mino. In early life he travelled a lot and got a comprehensive geographical knowledge of many provinces. Later on he served Nobunaga, who started an extensive land survey in 1580.

Mitsuhide and his relatives ( T31) started a treacherous rebellion against Nobunaga in 1582, to kill him at the Honnoji temple in Kyoto, but only to be defeated by Hideyoshi soon afterwards. (See also T01, T17, T30, T31).

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