"battle of hakodate". Nishiki-e (3-panel set) romanticized rendition. Depicts toshizo hijikata, taro matsudaira, takeaki enomoto and others fighting hard. The cavalry charge, with a sinking sail ship in the background, is led by the leaders of the rebellion, labeled from left to right, enomoto (kinjiro) takeaki, ōtori keisuke, matsudaira tarō. The samurai in yellow garment is hijikata toshizō. French soldiers are shown behind the cavalry charge in white trousers. Imperial troops with modern uniforms are on the right (the "red bear" (赤熊, shaguma) wigs indicate soldiers from tosa ("white bear" (白熊, haguma) wigs for chōshū, "black bear" (黒熊, koguma) wigs for satsuma)), with a modern steam warship in the background. The author is mosai nagashima, an ukiyo-e artist who was active from the end of the edo period to the meiji period. He studied under kuniyoshi utagawa, and at first called himself yoshitora utagawa. It is said that he later used the name mosai under the surname nagashima. Date: circa 1870.
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