
A Battle in Mid-Stream
A hand-colored woodblock print shows armored warriors fighting in stylized water, one raising a long pole with a crested standard beneath blossoming cherry branches. A dark horse stands at left, and the surging waves below are rendered in swirling white and grey lines on a tan ground.
- Artist
- Torii Kiyonobu I
- Date
- c. 1705-10
- Medium
- Hand-colored woodblock print; ōban, tan-e
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 3134 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1715).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection





