Author: Sino-Japanese War. Fushuken Tsuneshige?
Title: [Teikoku Kantai Toshima ni Shina-kan o Yabu Ru].
Description: Inoue Mohei 1894 (Meiji 27). Colour lithograph (or lithograph and woodcut?) triptych, each sheet approx 38x25.5cm. A good copy with decent top and left margins. ¶ This is your run of the mill fabulous exploding ship Sino-Japanese woodcut senso-e triptych but for one thing: it is a lithograph. There are plenty of single sheet lithographs but they aren't the same thing. I'm yet to see another like this. A couple of other copies are reproduced online and even allowing for the vagaries of reproduction it's clear that colours were as experimental as the print itself.All that I can find about Tsuneshige is that no-one agrees on how to read his name.

Keywords: graphic art lithograph woodcut c19th Japan Asia China war senso-e maritime military meiji