Utagawa Kuniyoshi
(1797 – 1861)

Seichû gishin meimei kagami
Mirror of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Retainers
1857

Yazama Jûjirô Moto-oki, one of the 47 Ronin, fighting with crossed swords by a sand pit with an overturned brazier

Signature: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi
Publisher: Ise-ya Isaburô
Date: snake 3/1857
Censor seal: aratame
Excellent 1st edition print with fine impression and condition and very good colours.
With rich powder for the flying sand. With albumbacking.
Upper area lightly soiled, margins trimmed.
oban tate-e 24.5 x 37.0 cm
see in B.W. Robinson "Warrior Prints" S90.13 (listed as not seen)