Japanese
Samurai Warrior Imagawa Yoshimoto. Yoshimoto is shown holding a samurai
commander's saihai, a baton, in his right hand, and wearing a helmet
decorated with fierce-looking horns. Standing in front of a wooden
stockade, confirming that this is a battlefield scene, Yoshimoto's
posture and expression convey the anxiety which even the fiercest
samurai could feel in the face of an approaching enemy. Yoshimoto was
indeed killed in battle. On the left, tied to the stockade, is the
samurai's yoguraotoshi, a long-handled weapon used in attacking castles
that ends in a crescent-shaped metal point.
