Canvas Print: Tehidoi Tsubushigata, 1904

Title: Tehidoi Tsubushigata, 1904 Description: A large Japanese hand crushing Port Arthur, July 25, 1904, a reference to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905. Creator: Kobayashi, Kiyochika, 1847-1915, artist Subjects: Hands--1900-1910, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 Collection: Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915. This collection includes Japanese woodblock prints and drawings, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, by such artists as Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. Subjects include actors, women, landscapes, scenes from Japanese literature and daily life, and Western foreigners. Many schools and traditions are represented, but primary strengths include the Japanese art forms known as Ukiyo-e, translated as "pictures of the floating (or sorrowful) world"; and Yokohama-e, literally "pictures of Yokohama."