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Taira no Shigemori Sending Gold to China
Taira no Shigemori Sending Gold to China

Taira no Shigemori Sending Gold to China

Series TitleA Mirror of Famous Generals of Japan (Dainippon meisho kagami)
Artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839 - 1892)
Date1878
MediumColor woodblock print; oban
DimensionsImage: 12 3/4 × 8 1/4 inches (32.39 × 20.96 cm)
Sheet: 14 5/8 × 9 7/8 inches (37.15 × 25.08 cm)
Credit LineGift of Yellow Freight System, Inc.
Object numberF90-12/16
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Ukiyoe ("pictures of the floating world") woodblock prints were fashionable during the Edo period (1615-1868), especially the 1700s. Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was one of the last ukiyoe artists popular with collectors in the late 1800s.

The Taira family was a warrior clan that ruled Japan in the second half of the 1100s. The stories of the catastrophic defeat of the Tairas inspired playwrights of Nō theater. The artist Yoshitoshi was fascinated by these legends and designed several prints depicting the rise and fall of the Taira clan.

Provenance

With Yellow Freight System, Inc., Overland Park, KS, by 1990;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1990.
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