Yamanaka Shikanosuke Yukimori standing in prayer

Yamanaka Shikanosuke Yukimori (1545–1578) was a retainer of the Amago clan of Izumo Province, remembered for praying to the crescent moon to grant him the seven hardships and eight pains so that he might steel himself in service of his lord's restoration. The print shows the warrior in standing posture, hands joined, before a thin sliver of moon — Yoshitoshi's iconographic distillation of Shikanosuke's vow. Drawn from the One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi, 1885–1892), the print foregrounds the solitary figure with [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) shading in the night sky and minimal landscape, concentrating attention on the prayer gesture and the moon itself. The Tsuki hyakushi sequence privileges quiet, contemplative moments over the violent action of Yoshitoshi's earlier [musha-e](/glossary/musha-e), and the Shikanosuke print belongs to a cluster of historical-warrior images in the series that rework loyalty narratives through personal devotion rather than battlefield drama, characteristic of the artist's late-period restraint.