Hojo Yasutoki from the series Instructive Models of Lofty Ambition

Japanese Color Woodblock Print

Print number 251 in the series Instructive Models of Lofty Ambition picturing the armor-clad H?j? Yasutoki ?? ?? (1183–1242), the third shikken (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate, being criticized by the seated Taira no Moritsuna ???? for wasting his valuable time in coming to the aid of his younger brother H?j? Tomotoki ?? ?? (1193-1245).

Kiyochika contributed 20 prints to this series. As Smith states: "The style of Kiyochika’s offerings to Instructive Models of Lofty Ambition was decorous and even stiff, as befitted the didactic emphasis of the whole [series.]"


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