The Loyal Soldiers of Aki and Bingo Provinces Attack the Bôchô Rebel Forces - 1847-52 - Utagawa Sadahide (1807-1873) - Japan - Late Edo period

Original woodblock print – Utagawa Sadahide (1807-1873) – “Geibi no gihei Bôchô gyakusei o semuru zu” 芸備義兵防長攻逆勢図(The Loyal Soldiers of Aki and Bingo Provinces Attack the Bôchô Rebel Forces) – Japan – 1847-52\r
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Utagawa sadahide is name ‘Gyokuransai Sadahide-e’玉蘭斎貞秀画” in his signature. \r
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Drawn shows the scene where Minamoto no Yoritomo, who became the right general, came to worship in prayer. Sadahide’s works include several works depicting Minamoto no Yoritomo. This time is also one of such works\r
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Publisher: Yamaguchiya Fujibee山口屋藤兵衛\r
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Sadahide was born Hashimoto Kenjirō (橋本兼次郎) in 1807 in Fusa Province (modern Chiba Prefecture) in Shimōsa. He joined Utagawa school master Kunisada’s studio in the 1820s and become one of the master’s most prominent students. As a member of the school, he took on Utagawa as a surname, and also used the surname Gountei(五雲亭) ,Gyokuran(玉蘭,) Gyokuransai(玉蘭斎) ,Saou(玉翁) as an art name, and also used his birth surname as an art name late in his career. \r
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See Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: https: //collections. mfa. org/objects/462106