Name: Ogata Gekko (1859-1920) Okura Koto (?-1910)
Brand: FIVE WOODBLOCK-PRINTED WAR TRIPTYCHS
Price: 700.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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Ogata Gekko (1859-1920)
Okura Koto (?-1910)
Five woodblock-printed war triptychs
Sino-Japanese War: The Japanese Navy Victorious Off Takushan (Nisshin senso Daikosan oki Nikkan sensho no zu), signed Gekko, sealed Kagyoro, October, 1894

Picture of the Great Battle of the Japanese Army at Pyongyang (Nichigun Heijo taisho no zu), signed Gekko, 1894

Japanese Forces Pursuing the Enemy at Jinzhoucheng (Nisshin senso Kinshujo tsuigeki no zu), signed Gekko, sealed Ungaikaku, 1894

Officers and Men Fight Fiercely at Fenghuangcheng (Hoojo ni shoshi funto no zu), signed Gekko, 1894

Picture of the Great Battle of the Japanese Army at Pyongyang (Nichigun Heijo daishingeki no zu), signed and sealed Koto, 1894
All vertical oban triptychs:
Each mounted on card, approx. 35.2 x 72cm.

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For another impression of the first, second and third in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession numbers 2000.380.19a-c, 2000.105a-c and 2000.349a-c, go to www.mfa.org/collections

For another impression of the first and second in the collections of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard Art Museums, object number 1944.5.14 and 1944.5.12, go to:
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/204382
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/203965

For another impression of the fifth in the Waseda University Library, Japan, go to http://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/html/chi05/chi05_03893_0008/index.html