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「冐彈雨單身開玄武門」
Defying a Shower of Bullets, He, Alone, Opened Hyonmu Gate (Dan'u o okashite tanshin Genbumon o hiraku)
「冐彈雨單身開玄武門」
Japanese
Meiji era
1894 (Meiji 27), November
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban triptych; 36.7 × 75 cm (14 7/16 × 29 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Francis Gardner Curtis
Accession NumberRES.27.200a-c
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Virgin et al., Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age (MFA, 2001), #28, photo p. 74; Swinton, In Battle's Light (Worcester, 1991), #13; Smith, Kiyochika (exh. cat., Santa Barbara, 1988), #95; Chaikin, The Sino-Japanese War (1983), cat. no. 39, photo p. 147
DescriptionMFA impressions: 2000.412a-c, RES.23.332-4, RES.27.200a-c
Signed
Kiyochika
清親
清親
Marks
Artist's seals: Kiyo, chika
ProvenancePurchased by Francis Gardner Curtis, the donor's husband, during his residency in Japan in the early 1890's