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KOKUNIMASA UTAGAWA (JAPAN, 1874-1944) "True Record of the News Received by Telegraph: Bandits Destroying the Manchurian Railway", Russo-Japanese War Triptych "Senso-e" Woodblock Print on mulberry paper, circa 1904, in faux bamboo frame, matted under UV plexiglas, OS: 19 1/2" x 33 1/2", SS: 13 1/2" x 26 1/2", tape stain to lower right corner. From a group of six prints that has been held by a Maine family for nearly a century and was assembled because a family member was an official in Teddy Roosevelt's cabinet when TR succeeded in negotiating the peaceful conclusion of the Japanese-Russo War in Portsmouth, NH, signed in September of 1905.