Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 85646

Assassin - Nihon Hana Zue

Artist / 作者
Gekko尾形月耕
Date / 年代
1892
Medium / 技法
浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / artelino
Digital record / 画像記録
982 × 1400 px
Source collection / 所蔵元
Artelino
Published by / 公開者
水野ナギ
Rights / 権利
All rights reserved / commercial reuse prohibited
Attribution / 表記
Artelino

Catalog note / 解説

"Nihon Hana Zue" (Pictures of Flowers of Japan) An assassin is waiting for the feudal lord, Ii Naosuke (the lord of Hikone and Tairo, Great Councillor, of the Tokugawa Shogunate), and his procession coming out from the Sakurada-mon Gate of Chiyoda Castle. Ii Naosuke was the man responsible for opening Japan to the West, for which he was assassinated at the Sakurada-mon on a snowy morning in March, 1860..

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