A Gallery of 40 Portrait Paintings Through History

Mark Cartwright

by Mark Cartwright
published on 25 February 2025

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Ashikaga Takauji

by Unknown Artist
published on 20 June 2019

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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 shown in a traditional seated posture and is wearing a samurai sword.

Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Utsunomiya, Japan.

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