Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Title: Head Hunter at Echi River - Kiso Kaido Sixty-nine Stations
Date: 1852.
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Description:
"Kisokaido Rokuju-ku Tsugi no Uchi" (Kiso Kaido Sixty-nine Stations) Echi River. Samurai warrior Sagichi Heikuro is washing his ax at Echi River. Although he was born as a farmer, he took lots of heads using his ax during the Battle of Minato River and became the adopted son of Sagichi Kuroemon. He appeared in the war novel, "Kusunoki Masatsura Senko Zue".
