Picture of Odai Matarokurō Setting His Own Castle on Fire, Calmly Entering the Fiery Pit and Dying; Enemy Troops Were Amazed at His Bravery, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Publisher: Tsujiokaya Bunsuke; Carver: Watanabe Eizō I

Title: Picture of Odai Matarokurō Setting His Own Castle on Fire, Calmly Entering the Fiery Pit and Dying; Enemy Troops Were Amazed at His Bravery
Dated: 1866, 12th lunar month
Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Publisher: Tsujiokaya Bunsuke; Carver: Watanabe Eizō I
Nationality: Japanese
Artist Life: 1839 - 1892
Role: Artist
Gallery: G238
Department: Asian Art
Dimension: 14 1/4 × 10 in. (36.2 × 25.4 cm) (sheet, each, approx., vertical ōban triptych)
Credit: The Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, gifts of various donors, by exchange, and gift of Edmond Freis in memory of his parents, Rose and Leon Freis
Accession Number: 2017.106.73a-c
Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Country: Japan
Century: 19th century
Rights: Public Domain
Classification: Prints
Object Name: Print (ukiyo-e / musha-e)
Catalogue Raisonne: Keyes, Courage and Silence (1982), no. 181; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), p. 297.
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Picture of Odai Matarokurō Setting His Own Castle on Fire, Calmly Entering the Fiery Pit and Dying; Enemy Troops Were Amazed at His Bravery, 1866, 12th lunar month