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Intricate, monochrome, Japanese woodblock print capturing a chaotic battle scene with samurai, horses, and a background of trees and architecture. Calligraphy is dispersed throughout the complex image.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Proof Impression of Vengence at Iga Pass (伊賀越敵討図 Igagoe kataki-uchi no zu), Edo Period

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Title

Proof Impression of Vengence at Iga Pass (伊賀越敵討図 Igagoe kataki-uchi no zu)

Year

Edo Period

Medium

color, ink

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

37.8 x 25.4 cm (14 7/8 x 10 inches) (plate) unmatted; folder size same as Mat A; Asian Art Department Carpenter Inventory and Cataloging

Signature / Inscription / Marks

[text and poems]illegible ink annotations top of each sheetInscription verso (part A) center, right in pencil:4791; in a later hand, verso (part A), bottom left in pencil:096433. Inscription verso (part B), center right in pencil: 4794; in a later hand, verso (part B), bottom left in pencil: 096433.

Signature: IchiyusaiKuniyoshi ga

Seals: Censor's seal | kiwame

Place

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Type

Credit

Gift of Roger S. Keyes and Elizabeth Coombs

Object Number

1998.72.8B

About

Proof Impression of Vengence at Iga Pass (伊賀越敵討図 Igagoe kataki-uchi no zu)

[text and poems]illegible ink annotations top of each sheetInscription verso (part A) center, right in pencil:4791; in a later hand, verso (part A), bottom left in pencil:096433. Inscription verso (part B), center right in pencil: 4794; in a later hand, verso (part B), bottom left in pencil: 096433.

Signature: IchiyusaiKuniyoshi ga

Seals: Censor's seal | kiwame

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Proof impression for Vengence at Iga Pass (伊賀越敵討図 Igagoe kataki-uchi no zu), Edo Period

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