Nitta Sachûjô Yoshisada, with His Sixteen Heroic Retainers, Set Out from Hyôgo and Attacked Takauji's Force of Sixty Thousand (Nitta Sachûjô Yoshisada jûroku ki no eiyû to tomo ni Hyôgo omote ni shutsujin shite Takauji no rokujjûman ki to tatakau zu)

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Nitta Sachûjô Yoshisada, with His Sixteen Heroic Retainers, Set Out from Hyôgo and Attacked Takauji's Force of Sixty Thousand (Nitta Sachûjô Yoshisada jûroku ki no eiyû to tomo ni Hyôgo omote ni shutsujin shite Takauji no rokujjûman ki to tatakau zu)

「新田左中将義貞十六騎の英雄と供に兵庫おもてに出陣して尊氏の六十万騎と戦ふ図」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Jôshûya Kinzô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1839–41 (Tenpô 10–12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.7 x 76.9 cm (14 7/16 x 30 1/4 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number17.3209.78-80

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T78, and pl. 44

DescriptionTriptych: 17.3209.78 (right), 17.3209.79 (left), 17.3209.80 (center)

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceBy 1917, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 – d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; April 5, 1917, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 5, 1917)