Name: Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908)
Brand: THREE WOODBLOCK-PRINTED WAR TRIPTYCHS
Price: 550.00 GBP
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Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908)
Three woodblock-printed war triptychs
Naval Officers Discussing the Battle Strategy to be Used in the War against China (Kaigun shoko to seishin no senryaku o ron suru zu), signed Oju Toshikata e, sealed Osai Shujin, 1894

Banzai for the Great Imperial Japan: a Great Victory at Pyongyang after a Hard Fight (Dai Nippon Teikoku ban-banzai, Heijo gekisen taisho zu), signed Oju Toshikata e, sealed Toshikata, 1894

Lieutenant-Commander Sakamoto of the Imperial Warship Akagi Fights Bravely (Teikoku Akagi kancho Sakamoto shosa funsen), English text on the print reads: Terrible War of General Sakamoto, Leader of the Imperial Warship Akagi, signed Oju Toshikata e, sealed Osai, 1894
All vertical oban triptychs mounted as one sheet:
Each 35.9 x 71.3cm.

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For another impression of the first in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, accession number JP3260, go to http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/55276

For another impression of the first, second and third in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession numbers 2000.380.9a-c, 2000.55a-c and 2000.380.20a-c, go to www.mfa.org/collections

For another impression of the first in the collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard Art Museums, object number 1971.109.1, go to http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/12829