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29-96-119

From: Japan

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 29-96-119
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Japanese
Provenience Japan
Period Edo Period (uncertain) | Meiji Period (uncertain)
Date Made 19th Century
Section Asian
Materials Cotton
Technique Painted
Iconography Samurai | Horse | Arrow | Bow | Nasu no Yoichi
Description

A banner known as a nobori-bata (幟旗). It depicts three samurai one of which is on a horse and has an arrow. There is a man holding a bow behind him. There is also a man with a vessel attached to his side in a brown robe pointing up to the samurai on horseback. There are clouds and waves in the background.This may be a reference to Nasu no Yoichi shooting the fan at the Battle of Yashima.

Height 424 cm
Width 96 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904

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