Japanese Color Woodblock Print on Paper, Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace sideboards The Personal Homes of Designers

The Personal Homes of Designers and Collectors

Small antique trunk

Art Nouveau table top by Emile Galle

with a turtle form as the base

all on bracket feet

Japanese Color Woodblock Print on Paper, Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace sideboards The Personal Homes of DesignersDETAILS An antique 19th century Japanese woodblock showing a scene of Emperor Go Shirakawa and his escort fleeing from the attack by the Minamoto clan on Sanj Palace. The scene is originally a section from a long emakimono scroll made in the Kamakura period, during the second half of the 13th century (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts). TITLE The Attack of the Sanjo Palace LITERATURE Captain F. Brinkley, The Art of Japan, J B Millet (Boston,