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Above: calligraphy by Saigō Takamori; below, an extravagant peony and branch with berries, by Taki Katei. Colour woodcut, 1880/1881. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The upper half is a calligraphy piece by Saigō Takamori, the statesman whose rebellion in 1877 had failed and made him something of a hero. He signs with his calligraphy nom-de-plume, Nanshu. The lower half of the sheet, the woodcut of a peony and berries by Katei, is entitled 'Prosperity and one hundred children" and is dated 1880 in the inscription
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