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Saigo and Sessho

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Saigo and Sessho — 西郷と照月
by Machida Shinjiro (Meiji lithographs)

Original caretaker of this artwork: Ross Walker Collection (Ohmi Gallery)

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Artist: Machida Shinjiro (Meiji lithographs) — 町田信次郎
Title: Saigo and Sessho — 西郷と照月
Series: Educational History Pictorial — 教育歴史画
Date of first edition?: 05/12/1899
Publisher (first edition)?: Shoseido — 東京松聲堂
Publisher (this edition)?: Shoseido — 東京松聲堂
Medium (first edition): Lithograph
Medium (this edition): Lithograph
Format (first edition): Double Oban
Format (this edition): Double Oban
DB artwork code: 46680
Notes (first edition)?: 
Saigo and Sessho flee to Kagoshima.

Saigo Takamori - The Last Samurai (from here and here):

Saigo Takamori of Japan is known as the Last Samurai. He is remembered to this day - and mythologized - as the epitome of bushido, the samurai code.
Notes (this edition)?: 

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