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KOKUNIMASA UTAGAWA (JAPAN, 1874-1944) "From the Battery at Mount Ogon, Port Arthur, the Russian Forces Bombard our Warship" ("Rohei ryojin ogonzan hodai yori waga kanchiku o hogeki su"), 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", losses to lower right corner and right edge, rippling. 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.