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[Battle scene from the Hamaguri Gate Incident of 1864, Kyoto, Japan] – Vintage Wall Art

[Battle scene from the Hamaguri Gate Incident of 1864, Kyoto, Japan] — historic print
[Battle scene from the Hamaguri Gate Incident of 1864, Kyoto, Japan]. Historic print from the Japanese Prints collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Battle scene from the Hamaguri Gate Incident of 1864, Kyoto, Japan]

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The subject here is the fighting at the Hamaguri Gate of Kyoto's Imperial Palace in the summer of 1864, when forces from the Chōshū domain tried to force their way into the palace grounds and were driven back. The fighting set off fires that spread through the city and destroyed large parts of it, and the scene's smoke and flames convey that disaster. Dated 1893, the print was made nearly three decades after the event, when Japanese artists often revisited the upheavals of the late Tokugawa period.

Medium1 print : woodcut, color.
Genredreams and substances
Notes[1893]
SubjectsCampaigns & battles--Japan--Kyoto--1860-1870. Fires--Japan--Kyoto--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,525 × 3,650 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222105

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