The latest issue of "Serai" features a huge special on "Castles of the Rulers". We decipher the essence of wars and politics of the realm, centered around famous castles associated with the three great unifiers: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

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Extra-Large Pull-out Appendix National Treasure "Funaki Version Scenes in and around the Capital Folding Screen" / Important Cultural Property "Toyokuni Festival Scenes Folding Screen" / Important Cultural Property "Summer Siege of Osaka Folding Screen"

You can overlook three folding screens, which are valuable historical materials that vividly convey the atmosphere of the era in which the three unifiers lived, in a grand panorama up to about 117cm wide. Additionally, the magazine details what is depicted in each of the three works and where their highlights are. You can fully feel the breath of the era when the rulers lived.

Kano Naizen "Toyokuni Festival Scenes Folding Screen" It depicts the magnificent festival held at Toyokuni Shrine, which enshrines Hideyoshi as a god, in August of Keicho 9 (1604), the seventh anniversary of Hideyoshi's death. The published left screen brilliantly captures the spectacular furyu dancing by the townspeople of Kyoto in front of the Great Buddha Hall of Hoko-ji Temple, and their enthusiasm. Important Cultural Property, a pair of six-panel folding screens, color on paper with gold ground, 167.5 x 365 cm each, Keicho 11 (1606), owned by Toyokuni Shrine.

Grand Feature / Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Ieyasu: Deciphering the Three Unifiers through Castles - "Castles" of the Rulers