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Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Yamamoto Kansuke Haruyuki1858, 6th month

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Japanese woodblock print of two warriors in combat, one in black kimono and one in elaborate teal and orange lamellar armor, with a mountain in the distance
Artist or Maker
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title
Yamamoto Kansuke Haruyuki
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1858, 6th month
Period
Edo period (1603 - 1868)
Medium
Color woodblock print
Dimensions
Image: 13 1/2 × 8 3/16 in. (34.29 × 20.8 cm) Sheet: 13 1/2 × 8 3/16 in. (34.29 × 20.8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Chuck Bowdlear, Ph.D., and John Borozan, M.A.
Accession Number
M.2000.105.99
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Curatorial Notes
This print depicts Yamamoto Kansuke Haruyuki (1501-1561) in his final moments during the fourth battle of Kawanakajima (1561).
After his battle strategy failed, General Yamamoto Haruyuki is said to have taken up a yari spear and rushed into battle to regain his honor. Here the general is pictured standing atop of the head of a defeated enemy after retreating from battle. Haruyuki's elaborate armor is pierced with arrows and blood flows from his wounds. He leans against his yari spear as a second warrior offers him a bowl of water. Soon following this, to avoid death at the hands of the enemy, he committs seppuku - ritual suicide. In order to prepare for seppuku, he is said to have retreated from the battlefield to a secluded area such the one depicted in the print.