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Naozane's Challenge
(Japan and Korea )
The victorious Genji general Naozane spies a defeated Heike warrior heading on horseback into the sea, where he is hoping to make it to his clan's fleet, anchored offshore. "It is cowardly to turn your back on your enemy," Naozane cries, beckoning with his fan, "come back!" The warrior returns to fight, and Naozane beheads him. But it is a tragic episode, for the warrior is but a youth, and at dawn, before the battle began, his flute playing had been heard by all.
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Robert S. Shaull [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2018-2019 | Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Art of Collaboration. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Japan, Osaka (Place of Origin)
Measurements
10 x 14 1/2 in. (25.4 x 36.83 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Robert S. Shaull, 1990
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
95.714