His representative work is "Ishu Retsuzo"(A Series of portraits of twelve Ainu chiefs) (owned by Hakodate City Central Library etc.), which shows the chiefs of Ainu tribe, who cooperated with Matsumae Domain on the occasion of the battle of Kunashiri, Menashi (uprising of Ezo [northerners] in Kansei era) in 1789. 寛政元年(1789年)クナシリ・メナシの戦い(寛政蝦夷蜂起)で松前藩に協力したアイヌの酋長を描いた『夷酋列像』(函館市立図書館ほか蔵)が代表作。 |