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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) | Guan Yu Sinks the Seven Armies of Wei (Kan'u Gi no shichigun o hitasu) | Edo period, 19th century

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)

Guan Yu Sinks the Seven Armies of Wei (Kan'u Gi no shichigun o hitasu)

Edo period, 19th century 


woodblock print, triptych, from the series Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Tsuzoku Sangokushi no uchi), each sheet signed Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, and with artist's paulownia seal, censor's seal aratame, published by Tsutaya Kichizo (Koeido), 8th month 1854


Vertical oban triptych: 36.8 x 73.7 cm., 14½ x 29⅛ in. 

For a similar impression of the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.38181a-c, go to: 

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/463510