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- Collection: Weeks 2-5: Art, Empire and War (1930-1945)
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Lady Kusunoki
A portrait of Lady Kusunoki, the wife Kusunoki Masashige.
Meeting of Generals Yamashita and Percival
This painting depicts the historic British surrender of Singapore to the Japanese after the Battle of Singapore in 1942. At a small office of an automobile factory, General Arthur Percival meets with General Yamashita Tomoyuki to sign the official…
Attack on Nanyuan, Beijing
A painting by Miyamoto depicting the Japanese attack on Beijing during World War 2. The pose of the soldier raising his rifle and flag is modeled after Lady Liberty in Eugene Delacroix's 1830 painting "Liberty Leading the People", demonstrating how…
Captives
Sketches of Australian Prisoners-of-War by Miyamoto Saburo when he visited Singapore during World War 2. Even though Miyamoto is aware that these Westerners are Japan's enemies, he still admired the physical characteristics of these caucasian men. He…
Hunger and Thirst
Compared to Miyamoto's many war paintings, Hunger and Thirst is special in many ways. First, it wasn't commissioned by the military nor is it based on any specific military event or photograph. Miyamoto's conception for this painting came purely from…
Standing Figure
A standing self-portrait
Portrait of a Painter
Portrait of an artist, presumably Matsumoto himself, with his family.
In the Vicinity of the Diet Building
An urban landscape of the Diet Building's surrounding area
Good Day
The artist painted his own wife and daughter in this painting. It conveys the ideological theme of "good wife, wise mother (良妻賢母, Ryōsai Kenbo), which was propagated across Japan and its colonies from the 19th to 20th century.
Morning Coolness
A depiction of Lin's future wife in a Kimono next to two goats, in front of a wall of morning glories. This work was accepted by the Shin Bunten exhibition.