{"product_id":"mg2036-kuniyoshi-aigo-gozaemon-hisamitsu-japanese-woodblock-print","title":"Kuniyoshi - Aigo Gozaemon Hisamitsu","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUtagawa Kuniyoshi\u003c\/strong\u003e 1798-1861\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1848-1849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yamamotoya Heikichi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ukiyo-e, Musha-e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Woodblock Print, Oban\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAigo Gozaemon Hisamitsu mounted and armoured in battle, bloodstained and pierced by arrows.\u003cbr\u003eHisamitsu was a 16th-century Japanese samurai and retainer of the Oda clan. He is best known for his actions and death at the Battle of Shizugatake (1583). During the engagement, he engaged in a fierce single combat duel against the warrior Fukushima Masanori (Ishimatsu). Exhausted from fighting on the battlefield for many hours, Hisamitsu was ultimately pierced by a spear and died from his wounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrint Number: 43 from Kuniyoshi's series \"Heroic Stories of the Taiheiki\" (Taiheiki eiyû den, 太平記英勇傳).\u003cbr\u003eThe Taiheiki was written in the late fourteenth century and recounts a series of wars between the Northern Court of Ashikaga Takauji in Kyoto, and the Southern Court of Emperor Go-Daigo in Yoshino. However, this series of prints portrays characters from the civil wars of the sixteenth century, with the participants’ names altered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fair condition. Not backed. Repairs and paper damage as shown. Cropped as shown. Centerfold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the artist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUtagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the ukiyo-e movement, working in Japan's late Edo period. Like his rival Utagawa Kunisada, he was a pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni. He became famous for warrior prints (musha-e), especially his series One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Suikoden (Tsūzoku Suikoden gōketsu hyakuhachinin), published around 1827. He also designed theatre subjects, women, landscapes (often with Western perspective), books and comic pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExamples of this print can be found in the following collections:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/collection\/object\/A_2008-3037-05601\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBritish Museum\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Mie Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44910965817422,"sku":"MG2036","price":552.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0095\/7602\/2094\/files\/mg2036-Kuniyoshi-AigoGozaemonHisamitsu-japanese-woodblock-print.jpg?v=1794592075","url":"https:\/\/miegallery.com\/en-de\/products\/mg2036-kuniyoshi-aigo-gozaemon-hisamitsu-japanese-woodblock-print","provider":"Mie Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}