Canvas Print: Nasu No Yoichi Naozane To Atsumori, 1885

Title: Nasu No Yoichi Naozane To Atsumori, 1885 Description: Top shows Japanese warrior Nasu no Yoichi seated on a horse; he is holding a bow in his left hand and looking back at enemy vessels offshore. Bottom shows old warrior Kumagai Naozane killing the young warrior Taira no Atsumori. From the Heike monogatari. Creator: Adachi, Gink?, active 1870-1900, artist Subjects: Campaigns & battles--Japan--1880-1890, Heike monogatari--Illustrations--1880-1890, War--Japan--1880-1890, Warriors--Japan--1880-1890 Collection: Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915. This collection includes Japanese woodblock prints and drawings, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, by such artists as Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. Subjects include actors, women, landscapes, scenes from Japanese literature and daily life, and Western foreigners. Many schools and traditions are represented, but primary strengths include the Japanese art forms known as Ukiyo-e, translated as "pictures of the floating (or sorrowful) world"; and Yokohama-e, literally "pictures of Yokohama."