国芳 Kuniyoshi
Artist : Kuniyoshi
Series :
Mirror of Our Country’s Heroes
Samurai :
Yamamoto Kansuke Haruyuki
Published : Edo 1858 (安政5年)
Size : 24.7 × 34.8 cm
(Including the frame 35 × 46 cm)
It’s a very rare print about
“Yamamoto Kansuke”.
He was a strategist of Takeda Shingen who is an important person in the battles of Kawanakajima.
The battle is famous that continued for twelve years(1553-1564) by Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin in the late Muromachi period.
The same print is at
The British Museum and MFA.
(MFA=Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.)