Original woodblock print – Utagawa Sadahide (1807-1873) – “Taihei-ki rokuharagassen Kusunoki Masayuki youchi ni Takauji Tanba ni shirizoku”太平記六原合戦 楠正行夜討ちに尊氏丹波に退く(Battle of Rokuhara from “Taihei-ki”. The castle of Shogun Ashikaga Takauji is under attack by Kusunoki Masatsura in a night. The forces of Takauji retreats to Tanba.) – Japan – 1859(Ansei 6 period)

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Original woodblock print – Utagawa Sadahide (1807-1873) – “Taihei-ki rokuharagassen Kusunoki Masayuki youchi ni Takauji Tanba ni shirizoku”太平記六原合戦 楠正行夜討ちに尊氏丹波に退く(Battle of Rokuhara from “Taihei-ki”. The castle of Shogun Ashikaga Takauji is under attack by Kusunoki Masatsura in a night. The forces of Takauji retreats to Tanba.) – Japan – 1859(Ansei 6 period)

Utagawa sadahide is name ‘Gountei Sadahide-e,Gountei’ 五雲亭貞秀画,貞秀画” in his signature.

Sadahide was called “Flying Ukiyo-e” because there were many works with a composition as seen from above.
One of the features of this work is that it does not draw the mountain as one of the landscapes, but the whole picture from above.

Publisher:Fujiokaya Keijirou藤岡屋慶次郎

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Sadahide was born Hashimoto Kenjirō (橋本兼次郎) in 1807 in Fusa Province (modern Chiba Prefecture) in Shimōsa. He joined Utagawa school master Kunisada’s studio in the 1820s and become one of the master’s most prominent students. As a member of the school, he took on Utagawa as a surname, and also used the surname Gountei(五雲亭),Gyokuran(玉蘭,)Gyokuransai(玉蘭斎),Saou(玉翁) as an art name, and also used his birth surname as an art name late in his career.