About This Print
 Shinohara Kunimoto (1837-1877) | Portraying Shinohara Kunimoto, a long-time friend of Saigō Takamori and a former major general and commander of the Imperial Guards who resigned after Saigō left the Imperial government. He accompanied Saigō on his return to Kagoshima and was later to head the shigakkō infantry school, part of a system of private schools in Kagoshima supported by Saigō and set up "as a way to inculcate samurai values [in] the last generation of birthright samurai."1 Shinohara was to command Saigō's 2nd division and died at the Battle of Tabaruzaka on March 3, 1877. He is buried along with Saigō at the Nanshū Cemetery in Kagoshima. It is one of six prints in the series titled Kagoshima eimei kurabe, loosely translated as "Kagoshima Competition for Glory". Each of the six prints portrays an important rebel figure in the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, as shown below. See the article Prints of the Satsuma Rebellion on this site for more information on the Rebellion and the prints it spawned. 1 "Saigō Takamori in the Emergence of Meiji Japan", Charles L. Yates appearing in Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Jul., 1994), Cambridge University Press, p. 467. |
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Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #2274 |
| Title or Description | Shinohara Kunimoto 篠原国幹 |
| Series | Kagoshima Competition for Glory 鹿児島英名竸 [鹿児島英名競] Kagoshima eimei kurabe |
| Artist | Utagawa Kunimasa IV (1848-1920) |
| Signature | Takenōchi Hidehisa 竹内栄久 [the birth name of Utagawa Kunimasa IV, as shown in the publisher's cartouche below] |
| Seal | no seal |
| Publication Date |  |
| Publisher |  left: 版元 [publisher] 通新石町十二番地 [address] 福田熊治郎 [Hasegawa Sakujirō] right: 画工 [artist] 通新石町二十四番地 [address] 竹内栄久 [Takenōchi Hidehisa, artist's birth name] |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | fair - fading and toning |
| Condition | poor – extensive wrinkling, period backing sheet; paper loss along left margin; bottom right and within image |
| Genre | ukiyo-e; rekishi-e |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | vertical oban |
| H x W Paper | 13 7/8 x 9 5/16 in. (35.2 x 23.7 cm) |
| Literature | |
| Collections This Print | Tokyo Metropolitan Library 1594-C8-5 |
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