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Sanada Yukimura Who Served Under Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Sanada Yukimura Who Served Under Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Sanada Yukimura Who Served Under Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Artist/Culture (Japanese, 1863–1925)
Date1899
Mediumcolor woodblock print
DimensionsOban Diptych: 35.5 × 48.4 cm (14 × 19 1/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineSarah C. Garver Fund
Object number1989.138
Descriptionoban tate-e diptych
Label TextA woodblock artist and illustrator for books and newspapers, Migita Toshihide is best known for his Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese war prints. He also frequently depicted historical scenes of ancient and modern heroes. The historical subjects became popular in Japanese woodblock prints of the nineteenth century due to the broad patronage for Japanese prints and to a rising consciousness of the distinctive Japanese experience as Japan opened itself to the rest of the world. This print is from the series of Meiji Juhachiban (18 Examples of Honor), a subject that derived from history and Kabuki and was inspired by Confucian morality. Designed during the years between the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), this series also reflects the intense nationalist fervor of that decade. The protagonist, Sanada Yukimura, was a warrior of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century who remained loyal to the previous warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598) and died in a battle against Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s enemy Tokugawa family.
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