YOSHITOSHI TSUKIOKA: One Hundred Views of the Moon, 1885-1892. Saito Kuranosuke was a general in the period of Japanese Unification, 1560-1600, during which Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu reimposed order after the Onin War and the collapse of the Ashiga shogunate. He fought for Oda, Shibata Katsuie, and Hideyoshi, and was rewarded with land in Higo province. However, he was forced to commit suicide the next year, on charges of maladministration.