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The warrior Chibata Shuri-no-shin Tatsuie encouraging his men to fight
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Details
- Series
- Tales of Heroes of the Chronicles of the Great Peace
- Associated place
- Date
- 1847 - 1850
- Artist/maker
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)Ryūkatei Tanekazu (1804 - 1858) (author)
- Associated people
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Yamamotoya Heikichi (active early 19th century - 1886) (publisher)Shibata Shurinosuke Katsuie (1522 - 1583) (subject)Murata Heiemon (active 1843 - 1853) (censor)Mera Ta’ichirō (active c. 1848 - 1853) (censor)
- Material and technique
- woodblock
- Dimensions
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mount 55.6 x 40.4 cm (height x width)
sheet 36.2 x 24.9 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by George Grigs, Miss Elizabeth Grigs, and Miss Susan Messer, in memory of Derick Grigs, 1971.
- Accession no.
- EA1971.102
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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. 16 on p. 12, illus. p. 28 pl. 16
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Kuniyoshi’s Heroes of China and Japan
Shibata Katsuie, 1522?-1583 (here Chibata Shuri-no-shin Tatsuie) was a brother-in-law of Oda Nobunaga and one of his lieutenants. Tatsuie was a loyal subject who achieved much success, and from an early age joined the front line. A famous heroic story about Tatsuie tells that when he and his army were besieged in the castle of Chōkōji, in southern Ōmi province, their water supply began to run low. Here Tatsuie who had given his men his own water ration, smashed the last jar containing water in order to encourage his men to fight to the last rather than to perish from thirst. Later he became a daimyo (a feudal lord) until he was forced to commit seppuku in his castle of Kita no shō in Echizen.
In this print, ‘Tatsuie’ or ‘Demon Chibata’ is depicted having broken a water-pot with his spear.
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