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Subject:Re: Japanese painting
Posted By: I.Nagy Mon, Dec 10, 2018
Title,
宇治川大合戦之圖 - Ujigawa Daigassen no Zu - Picture of the Battle at Ujigawa River
Signature,
一猛斎芳虎画 - Painted by Ichimōsai Yoshitora
Inscription on the left side,
佐々木四朗 高綱 - Sasaki Shirō Takatsuna
(Samurai commamder is shown racing across the River Uji atop a white horse to be the first to engage in battle - Battle of Ujigawa in 1184)
Utagawa Yoshitora 歌川芳虎 Ichimōsai = Pseudonym
Ukiyo-e painter active from about 1850 to about 1880
With regards,
I.Nagy
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