Samurai in armour battling, Japanese woodblock print with title cartouche – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Samurai in armour battling, Japanese woodblock print with title cartouche, preserved in this historic print. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Samurai in armour battling, Japanese woodblock print with title cartouche
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Armored warriors clash across the sheet in a composition built around motion, with a title cartouche set into the design, a detail that marks it as a finished print rather than a loose drawing. Japanese woodblock prints of samurai combat were popular in the nineteenth century, when printmakers drew on war tales and theatrical scenes to satisfy a broad urban audience. Each color was typically carved into its own block and pressed by hand, so the crispness of the lines and the layered inks reflect the skill of a whole workshop. Collectors today value such sheets for their bold graphic energy and for what they reveal about how warrior subjects were imagined in the period.
| Original scan | 3,538 × 4,498 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08462_ |
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