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Preparatory drawing (shita-e) of a samurai with raised sword preparing to behead a restrained elderly woman.

1890

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The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,

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E Row 1/GC063/Box 05/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01188
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n.d. [1890s].
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Beheading—Japan—In art
Executions and executioners—Japan—In art
Samurai—Japan—In art
Studies (visual works).
Older men—Japan—In art
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