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Woman Warrior Tomoe Gozen Kills Ieyoshi
ca. 1880 (Meiji)
pigments on mulberry paper
(Japan and Korea )
(Japan and Korea )
Tomoe Gozen on horseback kills Uchida Ieyoshi at the battle at Awazu no hara (1184) where she fought along side her lover Minamoto Yoshinaka. The other warrior named in the scene is Wada Yoshimori.
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Provenance
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C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.
Exhibitions
| 1989 | The Nature of Loyalty: Japanese Warrior Prints of the Nineteenth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Japan, Tokyo (Place of Origin)
Credit Line
Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, 1991
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.
95.625