SAMURAI WARRIOR T-SHIRT: HATAKEYAMA SHIGETADA
SAMURAI WARRIOR T-SHIRT: HATAKEYAMA SHIGETADA
Size A B
S 66 cm 49 cm
M 70 cm 52 cm
L 74 cm 55 cm
XL 78 cm 58 cm
XXL 82 cm 61 cm
Nishijin Sword is proud to present this brandnew, horseback-riding Samurai warrior T-shirt series.

Yasaki Inari Shine Ceiling PictureEach design used on this T-shirt was scanned from the pictures on a compartment ceiling of a front shrine of Yasaki Inari Shrine in Asakusa, Tokyo. The ceiling pictures are featuring 100 horseback-riding, historic greats and legends that were drawn in accordance with such the historical investigations as a figures, arms, clothes of each individual and horses.

This version features Hatakeyama Shigetada(1164-1205) a Samurai warrior who fought in the Genpei War. According to Tale of the Heike, Shigetada is described as ne of the competitors to be the first across the Uji River. When his horse was shot in the head with an arrow, he abandoned it and used his bow to help himself across.

Size: Size: S, M, L, XL, XXL. T-shirt Color: Light Yellow
Original design owned and copyrighted by Yasaki Inari Shrine

Nishijin Sword Price: $34.80
Yasaki Inari Shrine
Yasaki Inari ShrineOn the 23rd day of November, 1642, the third general of the Tokugawa Shogunte, Iemitsu erected the Edo version of the Sanjusangendo Temple near this Inari Shrine for national peace and security and more matured development of the martial arts for citizen in Edo.

The building was imitated to the Sanjusangendo Temple of Kyoto and because the Inari Shrine was located in the direction of the mark where an arrow was hit the point to in the archery-training facility of the temple, the shrine was named Yasaki, "arrowheard"

To the Top of Nishijin Sword

Home | About Nishijin Sword | How to Order | F.A.Q. | Contact | Site Map
Related Sites: Tozando International | Tozando Japan | Bokkenshop | Kyoto Budogu | Champ | Sport Zeus

Copyright© 2008 Nishijin Sword All Rights Reserved.