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The Battle of Yashima


屋島合戦
Kitao Masayoshi (Kuwagata Keisai) (Japanese, 1764–1824)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1787–90 (Tenmei 7–Kansei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical aiban diptych; 31 × 44.5 cm (12 3/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession Number54.186-7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Genshoku ukiyo-e dai hyakka jiten 7 (1980), #184 (right sheet only); TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #1389 (left sheet only)
DescriptionDiptych (two sheets of incomplete triptych): 54.186 (left), 54.187 (right)
Signed Kitao Masayoshi ga (on each sheet)
北尾政美画
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)