Picture of the Bloody Battle of the Brave Generals of the Takeda Clan, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1867, 6t
Picture of the Bloody Battle of the Brave Generals of the Takeda Clan, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1867, 6th lunar month, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Artthree separate sheets; battle scene; pink and grey lines of cannon and rifle fire horizontally across picture plane; man on a bucking brown horse at center, with a long staff; man with rectangular shield on a white horse at left; clouds of grey, pink and blue smoke at top and center; group of men wearing black helmets and purple blouses at top center, shooting rifles; another group of men wearing purple at top right, either fallen or lying on ground; two men in foreground, LRC–one seen from behind and another reaching up; two fallen men in LLC; this triptych is left side of a continuous image with six sheets, along with 2017.106.74a-c Left half of hexaptychSize: 14 ½ × 9 ¾ in. (36.83 × 24.77 cm) (sheet, each, approx., vertical ōban triptych)Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paperhttps://collections.artsmia.org/art/127807/ -- source link
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