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Long Live the Great Japanese Empire! A Great Victory for Our Troops in the Assault on Songhwan (Dai Nihon teikoku banbanzai, Seikan shugeki waga gun taisho no zu) by Mizuno Toshikata

Long Live the Great Japanese Empire! A Great Victory for Our Troops in the Assault on Songhwan (Dai Nihon teikoku banbanzai, Seikan shugeki waga gun taisho no zu)

Mizuno Toshikata · 1894

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Artist
Mizuno Toshikata
Date
1894
Medium
Color woodblock print; oban triptych
Location
Art Institute of Chicago
Collection
Arts of Asia
Culture
Japan
Credit line
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Fischer Fund
ART MOVEMENTS
Nihonga
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