Zelfmoord van Saigyo Takamori, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1877

Title(s)

Zelfmoord van Saigyo Takamori
Saigo Takamori seppuku no zu (title on object)

Object type

• print
• triptych

Object number

RP-P-1982-284

Catalogue reference

• Jap Cat V 32

Inscriptions / marks

• date

Description

Saigo Takamori en twee vazallen 's nachts in een boot op zee, kijkend naar blikseminslag bij een Westerse scheepsvloot.

Artist

• print maker: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (mentioned on object)
• Asai Ginjirô (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Okura Magobei (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: Japan
Japan
publisher: Tokyo

Dating

Sep-1877

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut

Measurements

height 356 mm × width 733 mm

What

• man and woman cohabiting
• accidents with lightning
• sea (seascape)

Acquisition

purchase 1982

Copyright

Public domain

• The age of Yoshitoshi : Japanese prints from the Meiji and Taishō periods : Nagasaki, Yokohama and Kamigata prints : recent acquisitions, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Jan Frederik Heijbroek, Dl. V, p. 30, cat.nr. 32