'Sanno Festival at the Chiyoda Palace' Original Woodblock by Toyohara Chikanobu - Ca 1897 Side Tables All the pigments used are

All the pigments used are mineral and earth pigments

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Thes Anglo-Indian Military chests were originally used by officers of the British Indian Army to carry their kit and personal possessions whilst on tour

Many sarota were produced in Kutch

Beneath the main storage compartment are two large drawers

'Sanno Festival at the Chiyoda Palace' Original Woodblock by Toyohara Chikanobu - Ca 1897 Side Tables All the pigments used areThis old Japanese woodblock triptych is by Meiji era woodblock print artist Toyohara Chikanobu (1838 1912). This woodblock is entitled "Chiyoda no on omote: Sanno sairei joran' (Chiyoda Outer Palace: Viewing the Sanno Festival) and depicts the Sanno Matsuri festival in 1897, a biennial festival celebrated in June with a procession from Sanno shrine in Tokyo, near Akasaka to the Hie jinja shrine at Edo Castle. You can see the Korean Ambassador's grand