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Stockno.:22-009
Artist:Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 月岡芳年 (1839-1892)
Description: No. 1 Uesugi Kenshin’s mythical riding into battle (Danjō shōhitsu Uesugi Kenshin Nyūdō Terutora 弾正少弼上杉謙信入道輝虎, from the series Yoshitoshi’s Courageous Warriors (Yoshitoshi musha burui芳年武者旡類). Published by Tsunashima Kamekichi, n.d. Uesugi Kenshin 上杉 謙信 (1530-1578) was one of the most powerful daimyō's of the Sengoku period.
Signed:Taiso Yoshitoshi ga, plus seal Taiso
Size:Oban tate-e.
Condition:Good impression, fine colour and condition, unbacked. Second state with two-coloured cartouche
Price:Euro 850 SOLD
Reference:Keyes, Courage and Silence (1982), no. 460.1; Iwakiri, Yoshitoshi (2014), fig. 179, p. 278.