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In the Conquest of Ōshū Province, Lord Minamoto Yoritomo Captures the Fortress of Takadachi (Minamoto Yoritomo kō Ōshū seibatsu Takadachi no shojō o kōraku su) by Utagawa Kuniteru II — Japanese Color woodblock print (nishiki-e), ōban triptych, 1868

In the Conquest of Ōshū Province, Lord Minamoto Yoritomo Captures the Fortress of Takadachi (Minamoto Yoritomo kō Ōshū seibatsu Takadachi no shojō o kōraku su)

源頼朝公奥州征伐高館之城所を攻落す

by Utagawa Kuniteru II

Date:
1868
Medium:
Color woodblock print (nishiki-e), ōban triptych

Description

A large black paddle-wheel ship with three masts and furled sails dominates the foreground, crowded with armored figures and flying banners bearing red and blue crests alongside a white sun disk flag; a red flag with a stylized crest hangs from the bowsprit at left, and smaller boats with pennants float nearby on the water. Behind the ship stretches a panoramic green coastal landscape dotted with numerous red and yellow vertical text-labels marking place names, layered hills fading into a pink-to-dark-blue gradient sky at the horizon. The composition spans three ōban sheets in a continuous horizontal view, with title cartouches and columns of Japanese text in the upper right and left corners identifying the scene.

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In the Conquest of Ōshū Province, Lord Minamoto Yoritomo Captures the Fortress of Takadachi (Minamoto Yoritomo kō Ōshū seibatsu Takadachi no shojō o kōraku su) (源頼朝公奥州征伐高館之城所を攻落す) was created by Utagawa Kuniteru II (二代歌川国輝) in 1868.