仏蘭西英吉利三兵大調錬之図|Maneuvers by Three Categories of French and English Soldiers (Furansu Igirisu sanhei ōchōren no zu)
8th month, 1867
Medium
Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image (a): 14 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (36.8 x 23.5 cm) Image (b): 14 3/8 x 9 1/4 in. (36.5 x 23.5 cm) Image (c): 14 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (36.5 x 24.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005
Accession Number
2007.49.258a–c
Tags
About the Artist
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi · 1839–1892
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was born on April 30, 1839, in the Shimbashi district of Edo, the city that would become Tokyo. At the age of eleven he was apprenticed to Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print, who gave the boy the artist name 'Yoshitoshi' as a mark of lineage within the Utagawa School. From Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi absorbed the full tradition of ukiyo-e — th...