Mizuno Toshikata

1866-1908

Japanese Warships Fire on the
Enemy Near Haiyang Island
(Kaiyoto fukin teikoku gunkan happo no zu)

signed Oju Toshikata-e with artist's seal Toshikata, publisher's seal of Akiyama Buemon, dated Meiji 27 (1894), September

oban tate-e triptych 29 1/2 by 14 3/4 in., 75 by 37.5 cm

References:
Philip Hu et al, Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan, Saint Louis Art Museum, 2016, no. 34.1
Bradley M. Bailey, Flash of Light, Fog of War: Japanese Military Prints, 1894-1905, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017, p. 43, no. 3, accession no. 2015.11.103
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 2000.380.13a-c

(inv. no. 10-5087)

price: $900