Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Tokugawa Shogun Viewing Watermelon Fight at Hama Palace

CultureJapanese
Titles
  • Tokugawa Shogun Viewing Watermelon Fight at Hama Palace
  • Onhama goten ni oite Tokugawa daiju onfunate suikagassen joran no zu
Date1889
MediumWoodblock print in colors with mica powder on three sheets of kozo paper
DimensionsOpen: 14 1/16 × 28 1/8 in. (35.7 × 71.5 cm)
Closed: 14 1/16 × 9 1/2 in. (35.7 × 24.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Anne and Albert Chao
Object number2023.144
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Department
Asian Art
Object Type
Provenance[Scholten Japanese Art, New York, before 2022]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition HistoryN/A
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The title cartouche at upper-left reads "Onhama goten ni oite Tokugawa daiju onfunate suikagassen joran no zu." Yoshitoshi’s signature is also inscribed at right.
Beneath the artist’s signature there is a red artist’s seal.
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