Japanese Print "Kajiwara Genda Kagesue on Surusumi" by Katsukawa Shunsho
Artist:Katsukawa Shunsho
Title:Kajiwara Genda Kagesue on Surusumi
Date:about 1773
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Source:Worcester Art Museum
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In 1183, after years of Taira dominance, Kiso Minamoto Yoshinaka (1154-84) suddenly seized Kyoto. At first hailed as a great liberator, Yoshinaka soon abused his power: he drove the Taira clan and the little boy Emperor Antoku westward, quarreled with the retired emperor Go-Shirakawa, let his troops terrorize the capital and declared himself the head of the Minamoto clan. Minamoto Yoritomo, who had been biding his time in Kamakura, then sent his half-brothers-Noriyori arriving from Omi province with 35,000 men and Yoshitsune from Ise province with 25,000 men-to suppress his tyrannical cousin Yoshinaka. To defend themselves Yoshi