three separate sheets; frowning man with legs wide apart, resting his sword on the ground and leaning on it; man has bleeding wound on head; man wears portion of lavender, white, black and red armor with yellow floral kimono beneath it; many arrows flying across picture plane; pale silhouettes of trees and mountain in background

Theater Reformation: Stories Gleaned at Yoshino, Picture of Kusunoki Masatsura Dying at the Battle of Shijōnawate, December 1886

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Portrait of the actor Ichikawa Danjūrō IX (1838-1903) as Kusunoki Taitō Masatsura (1326-1348) being killed at the Battle of Shijōnawate near Nara in 1348.

Details
Title
Theater Reformation: Stories Gleaned at Yoshino, Picture of Kusunoki Masatsura Dying at the Battle of Shijōnawate
Artist Life
1839 - 1892
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.106.188a-c
Catalogue Raisonne
Keyes, Courage and Silence (1982), no. 489; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), fig. 310, p. 300
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three separate sheets; frowning man with legs wide apart, resting his sword on the ground and leaning on it; man has bleeding wound on head; man wears portion of lavender, white, black and red armor with yellow floral kimono beneath it; many arrows flying across picture plane; pale silhouettes of trees and mountain in background