Exhibition of Mounted Archery Before the Emperor at Ueno Park on August 25, 1879 (Meiji jûni nen hachigatsu nijûgonichi Ueno kôen hôgei seiga tenran buki no uchi yabusame shinsha zu)

「明治十二年八月二十五日上野公園奉迎聖駕天覧武伎之内流鏑馬真写図」

Kamei Shiichi (Japanese, 1843–1905)
Publisher: Matsuda Rokuzan (Gengendô II) (Japanese, 1836–1903)

Japanese

Meiji era

1879 (Meiji 12), August 25

Medium/Technique Lithograph; ink on paper

Dimensions 39 x 50.9 cm (15 3/8 x 20 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Professor Edward S. Morse

Accession NumberRES.93.30

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA/Geidai, Double Impact (2015), #26; Aoki et al., Kindai Nihon hanga (1998), p. 194, fig. 17

DescriptionWelcoming ceremonies held for President Grant at Ueno Park and observed by the Emperor. A horseman shoots a whistling arrow at a target.

Signed Kamei Shiichi shinsha sekiga
亀井至一真写石画

Marks Publisher: Gengendô, Tokyo (opened 1874)

Provenance1893, gift of Dr. Edward Sylvester Morse to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: June 2, 1893)