Hangakujo The female warrior Hangaku Taiso, Yoshitoshi, 1839-1892 artist still image graphic still image Portrait prints-Japanese-1880-1890. Ukiyo-e-1880-1890. Woodcuts-Japanese-Color-1880-1890. ja 1885 monographic Japan Tsunajima Kamekichi [ca. 1885] jpn
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1 print : woodcut, color ; 37 x 25.3 cm. Han Gaku, historical woman warrior, armed and armored, seated on a rearing horse. Restricted access: Materials extremely fragile; please use online digital image. No known restrictions on publication. Caption label from exhibit "Floating World," Images & Literary Sources section: Incomparable Woman Warrior. Yoshitoshi's (1839-1892) dashing woman warrior is based on the historical figure Han Gaku, who lived around the year 1200. She is considered one of the three woman warriors of Japan, along with Empress Jingû and Tomoe Gozen. She lived in the province of Echigo (present-day Niigata) and fought, unsuccessfully, against the Kamakura shogunate. She was sent to Kamakura for execution but was saved by a warrior who asked for her to be spared and then married her. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Yoshitoshi mushaburui : A series of warriors by Yoshitoshi. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Published in: The Floating world of Ukiyo-e ... / essays by Sandy Kita .... New York ..., 2001, no. 72, p. 135. Exhibited: "The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows, dreams and substances," organized by the Library of Congress, 2001. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress). Warriors Japan 1880-1890 Women Japan 1880-1890 Horseback riding Japan 1880-1890 FP 2 - JPD, no. 1520 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/jpd.01786 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g08486 2002700059 LC-DIG-jpd-01786 DLC LC-USZC4-8486 DLC hdl:loc.pnp/jpd.01786 hdl:loc.pnp/cph.3g08486 aacr gihc DLC 010828 20250606194747.3 12964151 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)