"Minamoto Tameyoshi's son Tametomo (1139-1170), from the series Episodes from Unknown Japanese History (Nihon gaishi no uchi), Meiji period, dated 1884"

A third impression from Kiyochika's 1884 series Nihon gaishi no uchi, this print continues the representation of Minamoto no Tametomo within a format oriented toward historical commemoration and popular education. The Nihon gaishi — Rai San'yō's 1827 prose history of the warrior clans — was a foundational text for Meiji historical consciousness, and Kiyochika's series visually dramatizes its episodes for a public increasingly engaged with nationalistic historiography. Tametomo's legendary stature as an archer is rendered through an expansive physical presence filling the print field, his bow — reportedly of unusual size — presented as the defining attribute of his heroic identity. Variations between impressions of the same design may appear in [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradation in sky or background passages, where the degree of ink application by the printer's [baren](/glossary/baren) affected tonal transition. The 1884 date situates this print in Kiyochika's active period of historical figure production, a parallel output to the atmospheric Tokyo landscape prints for which he became most widely known.