LADY TOMOE AND THE PINE TREE (Utagawa Kunimaro)

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Object: original Japanese woodblock print
Genre: ukiyo-e 浮世絵 pictures of the floating world

Artist: Utagawa Kunimaro 歌川国麿 (active ca. 1850-75), signed Kunimaro ga 国麿画
Print title: Tomoe Gozen 巴御前
Print subject: Lady Tomoe 巴女 at the moment she wrenches the trunk of a pine tree from the grasp of her attacker Wada Yoshimori 和田義盛 during the Battle of Awazu 粟津の戦い in 1184

Material: washi 和紙 Japanese paper
Technique: nishiki-e 錦絵 multi-coloured woodblock printing

Period: 1850s
Condition: overall good, tiny holes, slight fold marks and paper thinnings, restoration in the upper left corner
Dimensions: 22,5 x 34 cm

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