Japanese woodcut, ink, paper, diptych, 24x30 cm (size of diptych paper), artist's signature
The woodcut is from the magazine "Miyo no hana" (translation: Flowers of the Empire or Flowers of the Magnificent Reign), No. 2, published in Japan in 1892 (Meiji 25). The magazine was published by Fujii Magobe, the publisher and editor was Yamada Kōtarō, and the woodcuts were done by Nakamura Busuke. "Miyo no hana" contains woodcuts created from paintings by artists such as Imao Keinen, Takeuchi Seiho, Kikuchi Hobun, Taniguchi Kokyo, Kamisaka Sekka, Kubota Beisen and many others.



