Shindō Kojirō Nobuyuki

Shindō Kojirō Nobuyuki was a Sengoku-period warrior rendered in Yoshitoshi's portrait style for his 1867 warrior prints series. The name and general type belong to the chronicles of sixteenth-century military conflict that provided a vast repertoire of subjects for Meiji-era popular prints. During 1867, as the old Tokugawa order collapsed, Yoshitoshi was producing warrior prints at an extraordinary pace—the heroic imagery of the Sengoku period offering audiences both entertainment and oblique commentary on the violent political transformations of their own time.