Braving Heavy Snow, a Japanese Officer Scouts Enemy Territory (Ō-yuki o okashite waga shōkō tanshin tekichi o teisatsu no zu 大雪ヲ冒シテ我将校単身敵地ヲ偵察之圖)
Braving Heavy Snow, a Japanese Officer Scouts Enemy Territory (Ō-yuki o okashite waga shōkō tanshin tekichi o teisatsu no zu 大雪ヲ冒シテ我将校単身敵地ヲ偵察之圖)

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Braving Heavy Snow, a Japanese Officer Scouts Enemy Territory (Ō-yuki o okashite waga shōkō tanshin tekichi o teisatsu no zu 大雪ヲ冒シテ我将校単身敵地ヲ偵察之圖)

Taguchi Beisaku 田口米作, 1864–1903
Published by Nakajima
Japanese
Meiji era, 1868–1912
2008-143 a-c

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Title
Braving Heavy Snow, a Japanese Officer Scouts Enemy Territory (Ō-yuki o okashite waga shōkō tanshin tekichi o teisatsu no zu 大雪ヲ冒シテ我将校単身敵地ヲ偵察之圖)
Maker
Taguchi Beisaku 田口米作
Published by Nakajima
Medium
Woodblock print (ōban tate-e triptych); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
block (each): 35.9 x 23.9 cm sheet (each): 36.8 x 24.8 cm. (14 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Japanese Print Collection
Object Number
2008-143 a-c
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Signatures
Signed: Beisaku
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist’s seal: “Beisaku”
Culture
Japanese
Period
Meiji
Type
triptychs, japanese printmaking styles, woodblock prints, oban, prints
Materials
oban, color, ink, paper
Techniques
woodcut (process)
Subject
men, figures (representations), winter, snow, horses, officers (military officers), horse blankets, blizzards, equestrians

–2008 Collection of Ruth Leserman (Los Angeles, CA) and Allen R. Adler (New York, NY), co-ownership. 2008 Allen R. Adler (New York, NY), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2008.

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