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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)

T11

Title: Sasai Ukon Masanao.
Sakai Ukon.

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 11; Robinson, B.W., Warrior-Prints, 1982, Nº 37.

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Sakai Ukon and his son Sakai Kyuzo ( T12) were retainers of Nobunaga. They fought against the Asai and Asakura clan. Ukon was killed at the battle of the Anagawa (1573).

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