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Utagawa Yoshimura was an ukiyo-e artist who was active between the late Edo period and the early Meiji era. Print depicting Empress Jingū, a legendary Japanese empress who ruled as a regent following her husband's death in 200 AD, and Minister Takenouchi no sukune holding a baby. The Empress Jingu is standing with her back to the sea, the Kaimon straits between Fukuoka prefecture and Yamanouchi prefecture. The Empress has just returned from a battlefield in Korea, soon after which she bore her successor, the future emperor Ojin. From ‘Nihon Shoki’ or ‘The Chronicles of Japan’, the second oldest work of classical Japanese history. Published by Satō Torakiyo (active 1870–1880), 3 Banchi Fukutomi-cho, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan.