Taira no Kiyomori's Spectral Vision Pocket Square

Taira no Kiyomori's Spectral Vision by Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1845

• 100% Silk
• Hand Rolled
• Designed and Printed in England
• 42cm x 42cm

The death, conflict, and fiery destruction caused by the ambitions of Taira no Kiyomori, in the Hōgen and Heiji civil wars were ultimately resolved by his own death from a fever, during the Genpei War of 1180–85. Hiroshige depicted him as haunted, but uncowed, by his past deeds, surrounded by eerie skull forms in a snowy garden.

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797- 1858) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868).

 

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