Heroes of the Great Pacification

A book that will delight lovers of Japanese printmaking (ukiyo-e), followers of the samurai code of bushidō and those interested in Japanese history. Discover the lives of the most powerful samurai in Japanese history. Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin and many other warriors who lived in a fascinating era of rivalry, betrayal and intrigue and who achieved the status of national heroes.

-Synopsis

The complete series Taiheiki eiyūden (1867) - Heroes of the Great Pacification - by Utagawa Yoshiiku (1833-1904) consists of 100 pictures of heroic warriors of Japanese history, men worthy of admiration in victory and defeat, in triumph and failure. They are the one hundred main protagonists of the Sengoku period (late 15th - late 16th century), a turbulent period of civil wars, bloody battles and the constant presence of death. They are also the hundred architects of the unification of Japan under the Tokugawa government and of the long and stable Edo period (1603-1867).

-Pilar Cabañas Moreno
Dr. Pilar Cabañas Moreno is full professor in the Department of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid, president of the Association of Japanese Studies in Spain and of the Asia Research Group and research member of the group "Japan/Spain: Relations through Art" at the University of Zaragoza.
She is a specialist in the history of Japanese art and this publication is part of the fundamental line of her research into "Relations between contemporary European and American art and their Japanese reference sources" - which she began with the book La fuerza de Oriente en la obra de Joan Miró (2000) - a subject that she is passionate about because of the evidence it provides of mutual enrichment in a world fearful of globalisation.

Pages: 272

Dimensions: 220 x 240 mm

Paperback with flaps / 100 engravings in colour