In the Battle of the Yellow Sea a Sailor onboard Our Japanese Warship Matsushima, on the Verge of Dying, Asked Whether or Not the Enemy Ship Had Been Destroyed (Kôkai no tatakai ni waga Matsushima no suihei shi ni nozonde tekikan no sonpi o tou)

「黄海之戰我松島之水兵臨死問敵艦存否」

Japanese

Meiji era

1894 (Meiji 27), October

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37 × 75.4 cm (14 9/16 × 29 11/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Francis Gardner Curtis

Accession NumberRES.27.192a-c

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Okamoto, Impressions of the Front (1983), #30; Chaikin, The Sino-Japanese War (1983), cat. no. 45, photo p. 155

DescriptionMFA impressions: 2000.109a-c, 2000.380.21a-c, RES.27.192a-c

Signed Kiyochika
清親

Marks Artist's seals: Kiyo, chika

Inscriptions

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