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Given title: Nitta Shirō Tadatsune Killing the Wild Boar
about 1780-1790
31.276
Not currently on view
Artwork Details
26 x 4-1/2 in. (image and sheet, trimmed all around)
PeriodSigned by artist: Toyokuni ga Publisher's mark: Wakasa-ya Yoichi
Accession NumberDaniel P. Erwin Fund
CopyrightPurchased by the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1931.
仁田四郎忠常の猪退治ノ図
As related in the Tale of the Soga Brothers, during a grand hunting excursion at the foot of Mt. Fuji, an aged and massive wild boar cut through the shogun’s hunting party. Despite having several arrows protruding from its back, the beast was so enraged that no one dared approach it. Nitta no Shirō rode in pursuit, but the boar turned sharply, causing Nitta’s horse to rear. Aware that being on the ground could be fatal, Nitta used his bow to vault himself onto the boar’s back and stabbed it to death. The shogun praised his spirit and ability. Soon after Nitta’s courageous feats, though, he was slandered, unfairly accused of plotting against the shogun, and then executed. People came to see his tragedy as divine retribution for killing the boar, a local mountain deity.
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