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The title says here depicted is the scene where Minamoto No Yoritomo is hunting at the foot of Mt.Fuji, but in fact, this was depicted in the previous year of a deer hunting to be held by a Tokugawa Shogun in Koganehara, 1849. Koganehara is a Shogunate’s ranch to raise military horses, located in present Matsudo, Chiba. The deer hunting had a purpose of military exercises as well as eliminating excess animals, conducted 4 times in total throughout the Edo period.
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Utagawa Sadahide(1807-1873) was an Ukiyoe painter in the late Edo era to Meiji era, a pupil of Utagawa Kunisada I. He is considered as a pioneer of Yokohama-e. His elaborate birds'eye view drawings and Gokan illustration are also known.
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