Illustration
A painted silk portrait thought to represent Ashikaga Takauji (r. 1338-1358), first shogun of Japan's Ashikaga shogunate (aka Muromachi shogunate) which would rule Japan until 1573. (The Shogun is show in a traidtional seated posture and is wearing a samurai sword.
Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Utsunomiya, Japan.
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