IN THE MIDDLE OF A MOONLESS NIGHT (Yamazaki Toshinobu)
$271.00
Object: original Japanese woodblock print
Genre: ukiyo-e 浮世絵 pictures of the floating world
Artist: Yamazaki Toshinobu 山崎年信 (1857-1886)
From the series: News of Kagoshima Rebellion 鹿児島戦争記事
Print subject: a young mother, belonging to the female troops made up of the wives of the rebels of the Satsuma domain 薩摩藩, hit by the fire of the soldiers of the imperial army in the waters of the Kotsuki River 甲突川 while, in the middle of a moonless night, was attempting to cut the ropes of a bamboo fence
Publisher: Kodama Yashichi 児玉弥七
Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing
Year: 1877, 9th month
Condition: good, right signs of aging, slight wrinkles and folds, two tiny holes
Dimensions: 24,5 x 35,5 cm
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