Sino-Japanese Naval Battles: Illustration of the Great Victory of the Imperial Navy at the Great Pitched Battle off Takushan (Nisshin kaisen Daikosan oki daigekisen, Dai Nihon kaigun daishôri no zu)

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Sino-Japanese Naval Battles: Illustration of the Great Victory of the Imperial Navy at the Great Pitched Battle off Takushan (Nisshin kaisen Daikosan oki daigekisen, Dai Nihon kaigun daishôri no zu)

「日清海戦大狐山沖大激戦　大日本海軍大勝利之図」

Utagawa Kokunimasa (Ryûa) (Japanese, 1874–1944)
Publisher: Fukuda Kumajirô (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1894 (Meiji 27), October

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban heptaptych; 35.5 x 145 cm (14 x 57 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection

Accession Number2000.380.10a-f

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hu et al, Conflicts of Interest (St. Louis exh. cat., 2016), #37; Virgin et al., Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age (MFA, 2001), #32, photo p. 78-79; Okamoto, Impressions of the Front (1983), #21; Konishi 11 (1977), pp. 46-7; Asai 7 (1936), pp. 86-7

Signed Kokunimasa
小国政

Marks Artist's seal: flower

ProvenancePrevious to 2000, purchased by Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf in London or Tokyo; 2000, gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2000)