Our Destroyers Hayatori and Asagiri Sinking Enemy Ships at Port Arthur During a Great Snowstorm at 3:00 a.m. on February 14, 1904 (Waga kuchiku kantai Hayatori Asagiri taifûsetsu Ryôjun ni oite tekikan o chin suru no zu) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Our Destroyers Hayatori and Asagiri Sinking Enemy Ships at Port Arthur During a Great Snowstorm at 3:00 a.m. on February 14, 1904 (Waga kuchiku kantai Hayatori Asagiri taifûsetsu Ryôjun ni oite tekikan o chin suru no zu)

Our Destroyers Hayatori and Asagiri Sinking Enemy Ships at Port Arthur During a Great Snowstorm at 3:00 a.m. on February 14, 1904 (Waga kuchiku kantai Hayatori Asagiri taifûsetsu Ryôjun ni oite tekikan o chin suru no zu)

「我驅逐艦速鳥朝霧冐大風雪旅順撃沈敵艦之圖」

Harada Kôkyo (Japanese, active 1894–1904)

Japanese

Meiji era

1904 (Meiji 37), February

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 34.5 x 70 cm (13 9/16 x 27 9/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Benjamin Weiss

Accession Number2004.2175a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hu et al, Conflicts of Interest (St. Louis exh. cat., 2016), #93

DescriptionMFA impressions: 2000.543a-c, 2004.2175a-c

Both MFA impressions have the margins trimmed off, but the St. Louis impression has intact margins with identification of the publisher as Matsuki Heikichi.

Signed Kôkyo
耕挙

Marks Artist's seal: Kôkyo

ProvenanceBy November, 1999: with John Adams Japanese Woodblock Prints; November 19, 1999: purchased by Benjamin Weiss; December 15, 2004: given as a gift to the MFA.