The warrior Ōta Kazusanosuke Taira-no Harunaga-kō (Oda Nobunaga) tearing a tent bearing his vassal's crest
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Title
The warrior Ōta Kazusanosuke Taira-no Harunaga-kō (Oda Nobunaga) tearing a tent bearing his vassal's crest
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Series
Tales of Heroes of the Chronicles of the Great Peace
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Artist/maker
Ryūkatei Tanekazu (1804 - 1858) (author)Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer) -
Associated people
Yamamotoya Heikichi (active early 19th century - 1886) (publisher)Mera Ta’ichirō (active c. 1848 - 1853) (censor)Murata Heiemon (active 1843 - 1853) (censor)Akechi Mitsuhide (c. 1528 - 1582) (heraldry on object)Oda Nobunaga (1834 - 1582) (subject) -
Associated place
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Date
1847 - 1850 -
Material and technique
woodblock print
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Object type
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Dimensions
mount 55.6 x 40.4 cm (height x width)
sheet 36.9 x 25.9 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by George Grigs, Miss Elizabeth Grigs, and Miss Susan Messer, in memory of Derick Grigs, 1971.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1971.103
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Catalogue text
Oda Nobunaga, 1534-1582, (here disguised under the name of Harunaga-kō) was a descendant of Taira no Kiyomori. He was the first of the three great unifiers of Japan at the end of the civil wars of the Sengoku-jidai, 1467-1568, defeating many key figures during the period and conquering several domains. In 1582 he ordered Akechi Mitsuhide, 1528?-1582, (here Takechi Michihide), one of his vassals, to provide entertainment for a great welcoming party for Tokugawa leyasu (1542-1616). Mitsuhide organised it most sumptuously, displaying treasures of gold and silver; however, Nobunaga became very angry when Mitsuhide used a tent curtain marked with his own crest.
In this print 'Harunaga-kō' is in court robes, wearing a tachi sword, tearing the tent curtain containing 'Takechi's' crest, in anger. Mitsuhide later turned against Nobunaga, who he caused to commit suicide at the Honnō-ji incident of the same year, when he burned down Azuchi castle.In: Impey, Oliver, and Mitsuko Watanabe, Kuniyoshi's Heroes of China and Japan: A Selection of Warriors from Two Series of Prints and a Painting by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798 - 1861), the Suikoden of 1827 and the Taiheki of 1848-9 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003)
Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Mitsuko Watanabe, Kuniyoshi's Heroes of China and Japan: A Selection of Warriors from Two Series of Prints and a Painting by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798 - 1861), the Suikoden of 1827 and the Taiheki of 1848-9 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003), no. 11 on p. 11, illus. p. 23 pl. 11
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