Information
Date : 1864
Size : O-ban / Triptych
Impression : Good
Condition : Good
Detail : Restored small wormholes / Partly loss on margin
This artwork is the depiction of the attack against Zen-Jyo Castle by Takeda Katsuyori.
This attack was named "Bare Skin Attack Against Zen-Jyo Castle", and we can see the origin of the battle name from Katsuyori's clothes.
When he visited this castle for the reconnaissance with wearing his normal wear, the drank warriors in the castle attacked the Army of Katsuyori, and it was a trigger of this battle. He didn't wear the armor.
The unique brown lines crossing through the artwork are the trajectories of the matchlocks and cannons.
Yoshitora was one of the pupils of Kuniyoshi and was active from the end of the Edo-shogunate to the Meiji era. In 1968, he become the second artist of the Ukiyo-e artist ranking, and it tells us that he had actually been known in the Ukiyo-e field.
He had especially been known with artworks of the depictions of the new culture which came from overseas and the scenery of Yokohama where thrived as the international town. In the era, general citizens hadn't seen the actual western cultures, architecture from foreign countries, and the fashions, so people could know it from Ukiyo-es.