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Yada Jirōemon Suketake
Yada Jirōemon Suketake
Artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi
     nationality Japanese
     birth-death 1797-1861
Creation date 1848
Period Edo
Materials color woodblock print
Credit line Gift of Tom and Nancy Yamamoto
Accession number 2002.132
Gallery Label

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.


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