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Mizuno Toshikata

1894 · Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

Propagandistic images from the frontlines of the brief Sino-Japanese War, fought against China from late summer 1894 to the following spring over control of the Korean Peninsula, helped feed nationalism back home. In this print published early in the war, naval officers gather around a table strewn with maps of northeast Asia. A battleship bearing the flag of imperial Japan can be seen in the background.

Artist

Mizuno Toshikata

Date

1894

Medium

Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959