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23-3/8 x 4-1/4 in. (image: trimmed all around)
PeriodSigned by artist, reads Shunzan ga Publisher's mark: Mikawa Inscribed: name of figure (treated as title): Kajiwara Genta Kagesue
Accession NumberDaniel P. Erwin Fund
CopyrightPurchased by the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1931.
梶原源太景李之図
Kajiwara Kagesue (d. 1200) was a general fighting for the Minamoto (Genji) clan against the rival Taira (Heike) clan. Historic accounts characterize his personality differently. In The Tale of the Soga Brothers, Kagesue is depicted as contentious, self-serving, and mean-spirited, albeit courageous. An alternate view is offered in the war chronicle Genpei seisuiki (The Rise and Fall of the Genji and the Heike). It says that in the Battle of Ikuta Woods, Kagesue cut a blossoming plum branch and stuck it into his quiver; bathed by the fragrance of plum blossoms, he charged straight into the enemy lines. This act led the courtly Heike warriors to remark that even the rough eastern samurai had poetic sentiments. The episode was made into the Noh drama Ebira no ume (Plum Quiver), and later into the kabuki drama Genta.
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