Number
#8

Date
12/1885

Title (Kanji)

Title (Rōmaji)

Description
Saitō Toshimitsu was a general in the service of Akechi Mitsuhide (1526-1582). In 1582, he assisted Mitsuhide in a successful but deceitful attack upon Oda Nobunaga, where Nobunaga was killed. Here he leads an advance party up the Kano river to Kyoto in preparation for the attack.

Additional information

Year Published

1885

Size

Ōban

Signed

Yoshitoshi, Yoshitoshi giga

Seals

Taiso, Yoshitoshi, Yoshitoshi no in

Subjects

Animals, Horse, Men, Moon, Ocean/Sea, Samurai

Editions

First

Publisher

Akiyama Buemon

Block Carvers

Esen, Naoyama, Nigouchi Enkatsu, Unknown, Yamamoto, Yoshihisa