Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 102926

Sakurada Gate

Artist / 作者
Maeda Masao前田政雄
Date / 年代
1964
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Showa / artelino
Digital record / 画像記録
1299 × 1000 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Artelino
Published by / 公開者
小春ユイ
Rights / 権利
All rights reserved / commercial reuse prohibited
Attribution / 表記
Artelino

Catalog note / 解説

"Sakurada mon". Sakurada-mon gate of Chiyoda palace in Tokyo. Despite the peaceful outlook on this print, the gate was the site where the assassination of Ii Naosuke by Mito Samurai group occurred. Ii Naosuke (the Great Councillor of the Tokugawa Shogunate) was the man responsible for opening Japan to the West for which he was assassinated at Sakurada-mon Gate on a snowy morning in March, 1860.

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