Yoshitsune's Cherry Tree and the Shrine to Noriyori at Ishiyakushi, no. 45 from the series Pictures of the Famous Places on the Fifty-three Stations (Vertical Tokaido)

By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. "Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces." Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015. p. 47, pl. 1

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