Uesugi Terutora Nyūdō Kenshin, from the series A Complete Picture of the Great Battle of Kawanakajima between Two Generals of Kō and Etsu (Kō-Etsu ryōshō Kawanakajima ōgassen zen)

This color woodblock print by Utagawa Kunitsuna I, held by Waseda University Library (accession number 012-1417), depicts Uesugi Terutora Nyūdō Kenshin — the celebrated mid-sixteenth-century daimyo of Echigo (modern Niigata) Province who became one of the most celebrated samurai commanders of the Sengoku era — from the series A Complete Picture of the Great Battle of Kawanakajima between Two Generals of Kō and Etsu (Kō-Etsu ryōshō Kawanakajima ōgassen zen). The Kawanakajima clashes, fought between Uesugi Kenshin of Echigo and Takeda Shingen of Kai (modern Yamanashi) Province on the Kawanakajima plain in Shinano Province during the 1550s and 1560s, were among the most romanticized military encounters of the Sengoku period, generating centuries of popular narrative, dramatic adaptation, and visual representation.