Russo-Japanese War Woodblock Print Kokunimasa Baikal
July 2014 Auction by Far East Asian Art

Right panel from a Russo-Japanese War triptych titled “News from the Russo-Japanese War: The Russian Railway Carriage Falling to the Bottom of the Frozen Lake” by Utagawa Kokunimasa (1874-1944) dated March 1904. Based upon an actual historic event, a train loaded with reserve Russian soldiers headed to the war front crashed through the ice on Lake Baikal. The complete triptych is in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...