Good colors and saturation. Some stain on the lower part of the lady`s garment and on the upper right curtain which, from the back, shows few fixing. No wrinkles nor creases. The print has been trimmed.
Central print from a triptych dedicated to the Tale of the Soga, showing the courtesan Kewaizaka no Shōshō, who was in love with Tokimune.
The tale of the Soga (Soga monogatari) is an epic tale belonging to the war tales genre (gunki monogatari) and generally considered the last of them.
It tells about the act of revenge performed by the two Soga brothers, the elder Sukenari and the younger Tokimune against Kudō Suketsune, who had killed their biological father years before,
seemingly because of an argument over land right.
The matter took place on June 28,th 1193, during a grand hunting event called Fuji no Makigari held by the Shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo at the foot of Mount Fuji where, it is said, almost 700.000
participants were invited.
After that Suketsune was killed Sukenari was eventually shot by one of Suketsune`s retainers; Tokimune was stopped only after having reached the Shōgun chamber, then questioned and finally executed.
Alongside the revenge of 47 rōnin is among the most famous vendetta incidents of Japanese history.
Good colors and saturation. Some stain on the lower part of the lady`s garment and on the upper right curtain which, from the back, shows few fixing. No wrinkles nor creases. The print has been trimmed.
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Series | The tale of the Soga: Kewaizaka chapter. (Soga monogatari Kewaizaka no jō, 曽我物語化粧坂之条). |
Author | Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) here signed as Kunisada aratame ni dai Toyokuni (国貞改二代豊国). |
Size | Ōban (大判). |
Publisher | Fujiokaya Hikotaro (藤岡屋彦太郎). |
Number | / |
Genre | Musha-e (武者絵), Edo-e (江戸絵). |
Period | C. 1844. |
Trimmed | Yes |
Backed | No |
Code | UKSI01009 |