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ample, dated to 1598, the year of his death, lies before taking service with the Toyo- appear whenever and wherever
and inscribed by the monk Nanka Genkó, tomi. At Sekigahara he neither aided nor He shines all over India, China, and Japan
is at Kôdaiin, the mortuary temple of Hi- opposed leyasu, remaining instead in His steadfast eyes catch even the smallest
deyoshi's wife. Portraits of Hideyoshi ap- Osaka with the Toyotomi. leyasu deprived speck of dust.
parently continued to be painted until the him of the rank of daimyo but granted him
Toyotomi family was exterminated by ley- a small fief. Tachibana Nagatoshi, the ruler
asu in 1615. However, no portrait dated In this portrait Hideyoshi sits on a ta- Yamanaka of Yamashiro Province, asked
later than the fourth month of 1601 is tami mat, wearing the court headgear us to write an inscription for the
known. called kdburi, a white courtier's informal honorable portrait of Toyokuni. We firmly
This portrait was painted for robe, and bluish black sashinuki (baggy declined but he was not satisfied, so I
Yamanaka Nagatoshi (Chóshun; 1547- pants tied at the ankles). Like his fellow respectfully wrote this short poem.
1607), a daimyo and retainer of Hideyoshi. warlords Hôjô Sôun (cat. 14), Miyoshi Na- Eighteenth day of eighth month, the
The Zen priests Genpo Reisan and Ikyó gayoshi (cat. 15), and Mori Motonari (cat. third year ofKeichd [1598].
Eitetsu added the inscriptions, both dated 16), he is shown with his right hand hold- Old Genpo, Reisan ofNanzenji
to the fifth month of 1600. This date indi- ing a folding fan and his left clenched in a Genpo [tripod-shaped relief seal]
cates that the painting was made during fist. Behind him is an ink landscape. Hi-
the uneasy period shortly before the Battle deyoshi is portrayed here as seated in a The second inscription is by Ikyó Eitetsu:
of Sekigahara (cat. 104), which confirmed shrine. On a stylistic basis, the painting
the hegemony of the Tokugawa. Yamanaka can be assigned to the Kano school. By nature neither a devil nor a human
Nagatoshi was originally a retainer of Sa- The first inscription, by Genpo A reincarnation, a god under heaven
his thoughts,
and Korea are as
In
Japan
saki Yoshikata of Omi Province, but served Reisan, reads:
under the Oda, Shibata, and Tanba fami- small as mustard seeds
We lift our eyes to Toyokuni the Great Deity India and China are dust in his eyes.
When called upon a free being which can
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