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Series
Gishi chūshin kagami [Mirror of the Loyal Retainers]
Artist
Creation date
1848
Publisher
Shimizu-ya Naojiro
Period
Edo
Materials
color woodblock print
Mark Descriptions
censor seal: Mera/Murata | seal: unidentified | inscribed: (unread biographical text) | signed: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga (with paulownia seal)
Credit line
Gift of Tom and Nancy Yamamoto
Accession number
2002.132
Collection
Not Currently On View
矢多次郎右衛門助武 from Gishi chūshin kagami (Mirror of the Loyal Retainers)義士忠心鑑
Suketake was one of 47 loyal rōnin who were sentenced by the government to commit seppuku (hara-kiri)after avenging the death of their lord in 1703. He was 28. The text says Yada Suketake was tall, strong, dedicated to martial arts, and a gun expert. A fox, whose den had been taken over by three other foxes and having no place to go, possessed the spirit of a merchant's 13-year old son instead. Suketake frightened the possessing fox out of the youth's body by shooting dead the three interlopers.