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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)

T15

Title: Fukishima Masamori.
Fukushima Masanori 1561 -1624.

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 15; Robinson, B.W., Warrior-Prints, 1982, Nº 9.

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Fukushima Masanori was a native of Owari, a son of a cooper, and retainer of Hideyoshi ( T50). After Hideyoshi's death he served under the Tokugawa clan. For his outstanding deeds at the battle of Sekigahara (1600) he was made great lord of the provinces of Aki and Bingo.

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