Kuniyoshi: Station Yabuhara: Sue Harukata (Sold)

Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title: Station Yabuhara: Sue Harukata
Series: Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidô Road
Date: 6/1852

A mounted samurai fights off unseen foes on horseback, the bamboo thicket behind him lending a sense of claustraphonia as his attackers, peasants armed with bamboo spears, overwhelm him. Although here named Sue Harukata, this print refers to Akechi Mitsuhide, who in 1582 overthrew Oda Nobunaga before being defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi three days later. The key to the actual story is the inset landscape shaped like a bellflower.

Condition: Excellent impression, color and condition.
Dimensions: ôban
Publisher: Sumiyoshia Masagorô
Literature: See Sarah Thompson’s “The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidô”, figure 36, page 88.
Seal: kiri
Signature: Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga

SKU: KUY333