EditorialThe Actor Arashi Otohachi I as Numataro, the Retainer of Utou Yasukata, in Part Two of the Play Kogane no Hana Gaijin Aramusha (Gold Flowers: The Triumphal Return of Fierce Warriors), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh...
EditorialScene from the Battle of Yashima from the Tale of the?Heike, late 17thearly 18th?century, Six-panel folding screen: ink, color, and gold pigments and flakes on paper, unframed: 37 7/16 ? 111 1/4 in. (95.1 ? 282.6?cm), This screen panel depicts the penu...
EditorialAkechi Samanosuke Mitsuharu crosses a lake on horseback, The warrior Akechi Samanosuke Mitsuharu (? -1582), the nephew of Akechi Mitsuhide, crosses a lake on his horse. Mitsuharu was a retainer of Oda Nobunaga (1534-82). Nobunaga was betrayed by Mitsuh...