Japan Tsukioka Yoshitoshi(月岡芳年) • 1864 Masakiyo Conquering Korea( 正清三韓退治圖 )

Description

Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年)
Print: A Picture of Masakiyo Conquering Korea -
(Masakiyo sankan taiji [no] zu - 正清三韓退治圖)
movements:Meiji Art
mediums:Wood Block Print
This is ONLY the most right part of the 3 parts. (see last picture)
Physical description:
"On the surface this triptych illustrates the invasion of Korea by Katō Kiyomasa (1562-1611), a retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Here he is listed under the more usual name of Masakiyo... In actual fact it could be a veiled reference to incidents of 1863 when the English bombed Kagoshima harbour in revenge for the murder of the English merchant Charles Lennox Richardson (1834-62) in September 1862. The Japanese were beaten resoundingly by the English, but in Yoshitoshi's work the Satsuma clansmen emerge as victorious heroes, following a surprise attack on the Koreans."
Quoted from: Yoshitoshi: Masterpieces from the Ed Fries Collection, p. 67 - accompanied by a full-color illustration.
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Illustrated in color in The World of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Tsukioka Yoshitoshi no Sekai - 月岡芳年の世界) by Susugu Yoshida, 2010, pp. 42-43, #28.