Defying a Shower of Bullets, He, Alone, Opened Hyonmu Gate (Dan'u o okashite tanshin Genbumon o hiraku)

「冐彈雨單身開玄武門」

Japanese
Meiji era
1894 (Meiji 27), November
Artist Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847–1915), Publisher Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya) (Japanese)

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Catalogue Raisonné

Virgin et al., Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age (MFA, 2001), #28, photo p. 74; Smith, Kiyochika (exh. cat., Santa Barbara, 1988), #95; Chaikin, The Sino-Japanese War (1983), cat. no. 39, photo p. 147

Dimensions

Vertical ôban triptych

Accession Number

RES.23.332-4

Medium or Technique

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Not On View

Collections

Asia, Prints and Drawings

Classifications

Prints

Signed

Kiyochika
清親

Markings

Artist's seals: Kiyo, chika

Provenance

Anonymous gift in memory of Horatio G. Curtis

Credit Line

Anonymous gift