Table of Contents

On Kuniyoshi's warriors again; Secret hero of townsmen: the image of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the popular culture of the Tokugawa period; Artful mimicry: the series title and topic; On the path to unification: chronology of the events represented in the series; Series parameters; The perfect warrior: pictorial formulae of martial attributes; Heroic biographies: texts in prints; Explanatory notes; Catalogue.

About the Author

Elena Varshavskaya teaches art history at the Rhode Island School of Design in the USA. SInce the mid-1990s she devoted special attention to the Taiheiki eiyū den print set, in combination with Japan's late 16th century history and the treatment in the arts of the banned historical topics under the strict censorship regulations in Japan of the 1840s.