"Untitled (Part of a [Triptych](/glossary/triptych): A Woman Being Shot by Arrows)" (1889) depicts a female figure pierced by multiple arrows—a subject drawn from the tradition of martyrdom imagery or from one of the kabuki plays featuring a woman subjected to lethal violence as punishment or spectacle. The image connects to Yoshitoshi's sustained fascination with extreme physical experience and the aestheticization of suffering, a thread that runs from his early muzan-e prints of the 1860s through his mature work of the late 1880s. The triptych format suggests this was one panel of a larger narrative composition.
1888
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Untitled (Part of a Triptych: A Woman being Shot by Arrows) was created by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年) in 1889.
Untitled (Part of a Triptych: A Woman being Shot by Arrows) depicts figures, kabuki, and bijin-ga.
