About This Print
Nobukazu pictures the troops celebrating after a victory at Asan1, Korea with sake served from barrels labeled 日本一 nipponichi ("Japan's best" or "number one in Japan.") The small red cartouche in the center panel reads 寄贈品 kizōhin ("gift"), possibly a gift from the emperor. The small red cartouche in the lower right hand corner sits above captured Chinese weapons and may read 分捕物 ("loot" or "plunder"). The artist did a similar design (see below) for a different publisher in the same year, 1894.
1 known as Gazan in Japanese
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Print Details
IHL Catalog |
#459 |
Title/Description | Gossip from the Sino-Japanese War (Sino-Japanese War break in the fighting after victory at Asan) Nisshin sensō yobun 日清戦争余聞 |
Artist | Watanabe Nobukazu (1872-1944) |
Signature | Yosai Nobukazu ga |
Seal | not sealed |
Publication Date | August 1894 |
Publisher | 横山良八 Yokoyama Ryōhachi |
Impression | good |
Colors | excellent |
Condition | fair - right and center sheets joined, moderate wrinkling throughout, minor red ink offsetting, trimmed to image |
Genre | ukiyo-e; senso-e |
Miscellaneous | |
Format | vertical oban triptych |
H x W Paper |
13 7/8 x 9 1/4 in. (35.2 x 23.5 cm) each sheet |
Literature |
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Collections This Print |
The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum of Waseda University 201-3601, 201-3602, 201-3603; British Library shelfmark: 16126.d.2(74) |