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3 Kanesawa Sadamasa tate eboshi (erect black headgear) on his 4 Ashikaga Yoshimochi
hanging scroll; ink and color on silk head, a kariginu (hunting robe), and hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
77.1 X 53.1 (303/8 X 20 7/8) sashinuki (baggy pants tied at the ankles). 113.6x59.0(443/4x231/4)
Nanbokuchô period, c. 1345 In format this is an idealized portrait of a Muromachi period, no later than 1414
military leader, more stylized than the por-
Shômyôji, Kanagawa Prefecture trait of Sanetoki. The carefully painted Jingoji, Kyoto
National Treasure Important Cultural Property
face has a thick layer of pigment over
This portrait of Kanesawa Sadamasa which light vermilion lines are drawn and Ashikaga Yoshimochi (1386-1428) was the
(1302-1333) is one of four portraits at Shô- vermilion shadows added. Stylistically, this fourth shogun of the Muromachi shogun-
myôji representing four members of the is a transitional work anticipating warrior ate. Yoshimochi is seated on a raised ta-
powerful Hôjô family (cat. 2). The young- portraits of the Muromachi period. It was tami mat wearing a headgear known as a
est of the four depicted, Sadamasa was the probably painted around 1345, the thir- kdburi and a courtier's robe. This portrait
son of Kanesawa Sadaaki (1278-1333). After teenth anniversary of his death, long after depicts him as the Naidaijin, a high official
serving as shogunal deputy in Kyoto and the Kanesawa family line had come to an of the imperial court who assisted the min-
as governor of Musashi Province, he end and when Shômyôji had regained its isters of the Right and the Left, rather
moved to Kamakura and headed the sho- former influence. than as the Seiitaishogun (Great General
gunate's office of justice in charge of terri- The inscription in the lower right Who Quells the Barbarians), the head of
torial disputes. In 1333, together with his corner reads, Sadamasa, former ruler of the military class.
father, he fought against Nitta Yoshisada's Musashi. AY His depiction here strongly resembles
(1301-1338) forces and was killed at Yama- that of Minamoto Yoritomo (cat. i),
nouchi in Kamakura. painted two centuries earlier: both men
In this portrait Sadamasa sits on a ta- wear the formal regalia of an imperial aris-
tami mat. Formally dressed, he wears a tocrat, and the designs on their robes are
Chinese-inspired. Both have their faces set

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