Hurrah! Hurrah! For the Great Japanese Empire! Great Victory for Our Troops in the Assault on Seonghwan (Dai Nihon teikoku banbanzai: Seikan shûgeki waga gun taishô no zu)

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Hurrah! Hurrah! For the Great Japanese Empire! Great Victory for Our Troops in the Assault on Seonghwan (Dai Nihon teikoku banbanzai: Seikan shûgeki waga gun taishô no zu)

「大日本帝国万々歳　成歡襲撃我軍大捷之圖」

Mizuno Toshikata (Japanese, 1866–1908)
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1894 (Meiji 27), August

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.1 × 74.5 cm (14 5/8 × 29 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Francis Gardner Curtis

Accession NumberRES.27.180a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kang Duksang, ed., Nishiki-e no naka no Chôsen to Chûgoku (2007), #75; Virgin et al., Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age (MFA, 2001), #26, photo p. 71 (this impression); Okamoto, Impressions of the Front (1983), #4

DescriptionMFA impressions: 2000.435a-c, RES.27.180a-c

Signed Ôju Toshikata saku
応需年方作

Marks Artist's seal: Ôsai shujin

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ProvenancePurchased by Francis Gardner Curtis, the donor's husband, during his residency in Japan in the early 1890's