The Mongol Invasion

ca. 1904 (Meiji)

302.3 cm 364.8 cm

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The Mongols invaded Japan twice, in 1274 and 1281, and twice they were repulsed with the help of a sudden typhoon (a kamikaze or "divine wind"). Kawasaki Jimbei II began to produced large-scale silk tapestries following his visit to France in 1886. This tapestry was based on a...

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Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1904, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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