page_title: Hino Kunimitsu
section_title: Escape
hierarchical_section_title: Hino Kunimitsu / Chronicle / Escape
caption_attribution_description: English: Japan, 1885 Series: Yoshitoshi's Warriors Trembling with Courage Prints; woodcuts Color woodblock print Herbert R. Cole Collection (M.84.31.221) Japanese Art 日野邦光は父に会いに佐渡へ行ったが父が殺されていることを知り、仇討ちを済ませて佐渡を脱出した。少年邦光が供の山伏・大善坊（大膳坊）とともに、逃げるため船を呼び止めている場面を描いたもの。 The boy Hino Kunimitsu(1320-1363) calling the ship to stop because of escaping from the enemy on Sado island. He had succeeded in avenging his father there.
context_page_description: Hino Kunimitsu, or Hino Kumawaka, childhood name Kumawakamaru, was the son of Hino Suketomo, the dainagon to Emperor Go-Daigo. Kumawaka himself was also an attendant to Emperor Go-Daigo, with whom he is sometimes thought to have had a pederastic relationship. He is best known for avenging his father by killing the lay monk Homma Saburō, who had Suketomo executed. Later, Kumawaka was sometimes portrayed in art as an example of filial piety.
context_section_description: During the day, he hid in a field of hemp, where he observed over a hundred mounted men searching for him.  Eventually, he came across an old monk, who, after listening to Kumawaka's story, carried him on his back to the harbor.  At the harbor, the pair had great difficulty in finding a boat.  When one vessel refused to heed the old monk's pleas for passage, the monk began chanting a prayer for the vessel to return.  According to the text, a violent wind then appeared, threatening to capsize the boat.  Seeing this, the boatmen cried out to the old monk to save them, and rowed back to shore.  When they reached the shore, the winds calmed, and Kumawaka and the old monk got on the boat.  The mounted pursuers had now caught up with them, and rode out onto shallow water in pursuit.  However, the boat crew, ignoring their shouts, raised sails and journeyed safely to Echigo province.
caption: Kunimitsu and the yamabushi Daizenboh calling back the boat. by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.
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