PRINT NUMBER 8 · TITLE NUMBER 24

#24 - Mase Magokuro Minamoto no Masatatsu with a severed head on the head of his sword

06/1868

His real name was Kanzaki Yogoro. At the age of thirteen he killed a man to avenge a friend. After Asano’s death, he disguised himself as a merchant and got the patronage of his enemy Kira.

Print number

8

Title number

#24

Artist

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Series

Portraits of True Loyalty and Chivalrous Spirit

Catalogue

Keyes 221, print 8

Image courtesy Art Yoshikiri
Catalogue descriptions: Yoshitoshi.net.