At the fourth battle of Kawanakajima, the warlord Takeda Shingen (1521-1573) fought off a surprise attack from his long time neighbour and rival, Uesugi Kenshin (1530-1578) by parrying the enemy’s sword with his metal war-fan. In the distance troops fighting at the confluence of the Sai and Chikumen rivers can be seen. The name Kawanakajima means ‘island between rivers’ and was the site of five battles between these two warlords. This warrior is one of those depicted on the netsuke EA2001.88.
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Artist/maker
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer) -
Associated people
Takeda Shingen (1521 - 1573) (subject)Shimizuya Naojirō (active c. 1845 - 1873) (publisher) -
Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1983.80
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Glossary of terms
netsuke
Further reading
Seaman, Joyce, Manjū: Netsuke from the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), illus. p. 206 fig. 59
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