Object Details
- Label
- Current events became a major subject of Japanese prints in the Meiji era. Here the title of the print identifies it as a newspaper that provides both a vivid color image and a text describing the event. Samurai from the Satsuma domain in Kagoshima are identified by their banner with the Shimazu daimyo's crest, a cross within a circle. They aim cannon at a ship in the water.
- Provenance
- From the 1960s to 1999
- Elizabeth D. Woodbury, Japan and Alexandria, VA, purchased in Japan in the 1960s [1]
- From 1999
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, given by Elizabeth D. Woodbury in 1999
- Notes:
- [1] According to Provenance Remark 1 in the object record.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Elizabeth D. Woodbury
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- Utagawa Kunisada II 歌川国貞二代目 (1823-1880)
- Date
- before 1880
- Period
- Meiji era
- Credit Line
- Gift--the Elizabeth D. Woodbury collection of prints from Meiji Japan
- Medium
- Ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 17 x 23.8 cm (6 11/16 x 9 3/8 in)
- Type
