Japanese Print "Yorimasa Minamoto about to Commit Seppuku" by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Artist:Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title:Yorimasa Minamoto about to Commit Seppuku
Date:1846
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Source:Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
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Ogura Nazorae Hyakunin Issu (Ogura Imitation of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets) No. 8 Poem by Kisen Hoshi, "My lowly hut is Southeast from the capital. The world men have named a "Mount of Gloom." (lower cartouche) Minamoto Yorimasa commits seppuku suicide after he wrote his last poem on an ogi-fan.