SCENE OF BALLOON ASCENTS

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Utagawa Yoshitora (active about 1850-1880)
Scene of balloon ascents
Signed Yoshitora, dated 1872, good impression, colours and condition
Oban triptych, 14½ x 29½in. (37 x 75cm.)

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This design was probably inspired by the first successful accents at Tsukiji by the Japanese Navy in the same year. Another impression is illustrated in Yokohama Kenritsu Hakubutsukan [Yokohama Prefectural Museum], Yokohama ukiyo-e (Yokohama, 1979), p. 111.

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