Miyamoto musashi – Vintage Wall Art
![Miyamoto musashi, [between 1847 and 1850] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e8/e803cc82a494-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Miyamoto musashi, preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Few figures in Japanese history carry as much legend as Miyamoto Musashi, the swordsman who lived from about 1584 to 1645 and later wrote the treatise known as the *Book of Five Rings*. Here he appears in a vertical oban woodcut by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of a series called *Eimei sanjūrokkassen*, or *Thirty-six Famous Battles*, issued around 1847 to 1850. Kuniyoshi was known for bold, theatrical compositions, and the series drew on episodes from the past, presenting warriors in a dramatic style that appealed to a popular audience in late Edo Japan. Samurai subjects like this one reflected a wider taste for martial stories in the decades before the Meiji Restoration.
| Created / published | [between 1847 and 1850] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color ; 36.7 x 24.3 cm. |
| Genre | organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. |
| Notes | Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Vertical Oban Nishikie. From the series: Eimei sanjūrokukassen : Thirty-six famous battles. Signed: Ichiy-sai Kuniyoshi. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ..., 2001, no. 25, p. 57. Exhibited: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows |
| Subjects | Miyamoto, Musashi,--1584-1645. Samurai--Japan--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,821 × 4,721 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221887 |
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