"Matsu no Sakae" (1889) is a rare material in the General Library with the subtitle, "Marriage of the Shogun's daughter to the Kaga Family".

This is a nishiki-e, woodblock print, by Utagawa Kunisada III. Including his imagination, he depicted the scene in 1827 when a princess called Yo-hime (also known as Yasu-hime), the 21st daughter of the 11th Tokugawa Shogun, Ienari, married the 13th lord of the Kaga Domain, Maeda Nariyasu. "Akamon" (the Red Gate), one of the symbols of the University of Tokyo, was built to welcome Yo-hime at that time. The illustration of this Princess, dressed in a pure white wedding attire, passing through the Akamon in a lavish procession conveys the splendor of the time to this day. The reason that the Yo-hime's wedding procession in 1827 was chosen as the theme of this work in 1889 is considered to be because this year was the 300th year since Tokugawa Ieyasu entered Edo in 1590, and the 300th anniversary fest of the foundation of Tokyo was held. For the University of Tokyo, this is a valuable illustrated historical document that tells the origin of Akamon.

【Call no. A00:6569】