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| Feb 27, 2015
… West Side Story at 7:30 pm. In the galleries, Art of the Samurai: Swords, Paintings, Prints, and Textiles…
1874, 12th month | Triptych; color woodblock print
of the samurai by the imperial troops at the Battle of Lower Toba at Fushimi ... and dying comrades, taking aim at samurai fleeing across a river. Rifles ... by the numerous mangled bodies of the soldiers, the traditional swords and pikes ...
1877, March | Triptych; color woodblock print
points forward with his sword, the ubiquitous symbol of samurai culture. ... Around Kumamoto Castle" sets forth the final destruction of samurai ... samurai." During a battle after his defeat at Kumamoto, Saigō committed ritual ...
November, 1874 | Triptych; color woodblock prints
to the battlefield; figures run in all directions, and spent arrows and swords are stuck ... In the center, samurai loyalists run frantically in disarray. One of them, Amano ... shogunate (military bureaucracy) and the reign of the samurai ...
(Inrō) second half of 18th century; (Netsuke) first half of 19th century; (Ojime) no date | (Inrō) Togidashi maki-e lacquer; (Netsuke) wood, gold maki-e lacquer, abalone shell; (Ojime) tri-lobed metal
of talent achieved samurai status. His designs were based on paintings ... the taste of the wearer. During these centuries, dress of the samurai was regulated by the government, whose proclamations stated that samurai of any ...
1886, January | Color woodblock print
(1151-1185) was a warrior in the Taira naval fleet who exemplified the samurai ... it with the shogun, and initiating quintessential samurai tropes. Anecdotes from ... by slicing open one's bowels with a short sword was recorded ...
May 5, 1879 | Triptych; color woodblock prints
the emperor, placing it with the shogun, and initiating quintessential samurai ... by slicing open one's bowels with a short sword was recorded ...
1865, 2nd month | Triptych; color woodblock print
the emperor, placing it with the shogun, and initiating quintessential samurai ... by slicing open one's bowels with a short sword was recorded ...
1881 | Triptych; color woodblock prints
and initiating quintessential samurai tropes. Anecdotes from these battles have ... by slicing open one's bowels with a short sword was recorded ...
1866 | Triptych; color woodblock print
and seven cuts on his war-fan, which Takeda Shingen uses to fend off sword ... Hideyoshi, was a man born to humble beginnings with no samurai lineage. ...
1886, October | Color woodblock print
quintessential samurai tropes. Anecdotes from these battles have been reenacted ... by slicing open one's bowels with a short sword was recorded ...
5/1862 | Diptych (two right panels from a triptych); color woodblock print
Lord Mashiba is seen here in full military garb with his sword drawn ... Hideyoshi, was a man born to humble beginnings with no samurai lineage. ...
1880 | Triptych; color woodblock print
quintessential samurai tropes. Anecdotes from these battles have been reenacted ... by slicing open one's bowels with a short sword was recorded ...