Author: Ogata Gekkō (尾形月耕).
Subject: Sakurai station, farewell of Lord Kusunoki (Sakurai eki. Nankō ketsubetsu no zu, 桜井駅 楠公決別の図).
Series: Pictures of flowers of Japan (Nihon hana zue, 日本花図絵).
Number: 32/36.
Genre: musha-e (武者絵).
Size: large (ōban, 大判) 35cm x 23,6 (13,77 x 9,29 inches).
Publisher: Sasaki Toyokichi (佐々木豊吉).
Period: c. 1892.
Trimmed: yes
Backed: yes
Code: OGK01002

Condition: general condition are good. Nice color and clean surface with any remarkable stain nor wrinkles.

A portrait of Kusunoki Masashige, a samurai lived during the Kamakura era, in the moment of his farewell to his son Masatsura at Sakurai station which historical site is nowadays located in the Osaka prefecture.
He is mainly remembered for having supported the Emperor Go Daigo (Go Daigo tennō / 後醍醐天皇) in fighting for overthrow the Kamakura shogunate, restoring the Imperial Court for a brief three years period known as the Kenmu Restoration (kenmu no shinsei / 建武の新政).
He eventually died after it while keep fighting following his Emperor orders.
His popularity is associated to the ideal of loyalty and virtue and epitomized in the phrase "would that I had seven lives to give for my country!"" (shichishō hōkoku / 七生報國) attributed to his brother Masasue.