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芳年武者无類 弾正忠松永久秀（収載資料名：[武者无類外ニ三枚続キ画帖]）

大蘇芳年 · 1883 · 1 picture

A Meiji-era Japanese woodblock print from 1883 by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, published in a series of warrior portraits, depicting the warlord Matsunaga Hisahide in a tense moment of his final act. The record is brief, so the picture carries the description: a costumed figure in a patterned green robe with a red cord, a dark striped banner-like shape, flying birds, and a red-and-white lacquered chest in the foreground. A designer could take its bold flat colour blocks, dramatic diagonal composition, and dense patterned textiles as a model.

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National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library