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Author: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) here signed as Kunisada aratame ni dai Toyokuni (国貞改二代豊国).
Subject: The courtesan Shōshō (yūkun Shōshō, 遊君少将).
Series: The tale of the Soga: Kewaizaka chapter. (Soga monogatari Kewaizaka no jō, 曽我物語化粧坂之条).
Genre: musha-e (武者絵), Edo-e (江戸絵).
Size: large (ōban, 大判).
Publisher: Fujiokaya Hikotaro (藤岡屋彦太郎).
Period: c. 1844.
Trimmed: yes
Backed: no
Code: UKSI01009
Condition: good colors and saturation. Some stain on the lower part of the lady's garment
and on the upper right curtain which, from the back, shows few fixing. No wrinkles nor creases. The
print has been trimmed. Then the low price.
Central print from a triptych dedicated to the Tale of the Soga, showing the courtesan Kewaizaka no Shōshō,
who was in love with Tokimune.
The tale of the Soga (Soga monogatari / 曽我物語) is an epic tale belonging to the war tales genre (gunki monogatari / 軍記物語)
and generally considered the last of them.
It tells about the act of revenge performed by the two Soga brothers, the elder Sukenari (祐成) and the younger Tokimune (時致)
against Kudō Suketsune (工藤祐経), who had killed their biological father years before, seemingly because of an argument over land right.
The matter took place on June 28,th 1193, during a grand hunting event called Fuji no Makigari (富士の巻狩り) held by the Shōgun Minamoto no
Yoritomo (源 頼朝) at the foot of Mount Fuji where, it is said, almost 700.000 participants were invited.
After that Suketsune was killed Sukenari was eventually shot by one of Suketsune's retainers; Tokimune was stopped only after having reached
the Shōgun chamber, then questioned and finally executed.
Alongside the revenge of 47 rōnin is among the most famous vendetta incidents of Japanese history.