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The Fall of Fenghuangcheng: Putting the Enemy to Rout (Hôôjô kanraku tekihei kaisô zu)


「鳳凰城陥落敵兵潰走図」
Mizuno Toshikata (Japanese, 1866–1908)
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1894 (Meiji 27), November

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37 × 74.7 cm (14 9/16 × 29 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number21.1789-91
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Okamoto, Impressions of the Front (1983), #39; Chaikin, The Sino-Japanese War (1983), cat. no. 69, photo p. 179; Asai, Kinsei nishiki-e sesôshi 7 (1936), pp. 112-3
DescriptionTriptych: 21.1789 (right), 21.1790 (center), 21.1791 (left)

MFA impressions: 21.1789-91, RES.23.303-5, RES.23.341-3
Signed Ôju Toshikata e
応需年方絵
Marks Artist's seal: Toshikata
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 – d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.