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Given title: Sasaki Takatsuna Racing Kajiwara Kagesue at the Battle of Uji River
about 1780-1820
Japanese
31.290
Not currently on view
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25-7/8 x 4-1/8 in. (image, trimmed all around)
PeriodPublisher's mark: ^Owada Yasuemon
Accession NumberDaniel P. Erwin Fund
Copyright(Sarah Lydia Niblack [1868-1933], Indianapolis, Indiana); Purchased by the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1931.
佐々木高綱と梶原景李宇治川の先陳争いの図
As recorded in the Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike), at the 1184 Battle of Uji River, two samurai rode magnificent steeds given to them by their lord, Minamoto Yoritomo. Kajiwara Kagesue rode a black horse, and Sasaki Takatsuna rode a white horse. Each samurai had vowed to be the first to cross the river to engage the enemy on the other bank. Kagesue was in the lead when Takatsuna warned him that his saddle girth was loose. But when Kagesue leaned forward to check it, Takatsuna spurred his horse ahead into the rushing waters. Kagesue lost by a step. The artist placed Kagesue, the loser in the contest, in the foreground, while his opponent rides off toward the top of the print to victory (and possible death at the hands of the waiting enemy).
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