Original woodblock print triptych - Paper - Woman - Toyohara Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) - 'Kagoshima Yuushi zoroi'鹿児島勇志揃 (Line up Heroes from the Kagoshima) - Japan - 1877 (Meiji 10) The signature says “Youshu chikanobu hitsu,”揚州周延筆”. This woodblock print has some tears See National Diet Library: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1307914 In Chikanobu's work, many women are depicted fighting with swords and spears. This work also depicts a woman fighting bravely. This style is also used in the "The Inner Precincts at Chiyoda" series, which is a representative work of Chikanobu. Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延), better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu (楊洲周延), was a prolific woodblock artist of Japan’s Meiji period. Chikanobu signed his artwork “Yōshū Chikanobu”(楊洲周延). This was his “art name”. The artist’s “real name” was Hashimoto Naoyoshi (橋本直義); and it was published in his obituary. Many of his earliest works were signed “studio of Yōshū Chikanobu” (楊洲齋周延) Yōshū-sai Chikanobu; a small number of his early creations were simply signed “Yōshū” (楊洲). At least one triptych from 1879 exists signed “Yōshū Naoyoshi” (楊洲直義). No works have surfaced that are signed either “Toyohara Chikanobu” or “Hashimoto Chikanobu”.