Civil and Military Officers, Meiji period (1868?1912), December 1877, Japan, Triptych of polychrome woodblock prints; ink and color on paper, Oban; each panel: 13 3/8 x 9 1/4 in. (34 x 23. 5 cm), Prints, Toshimasa (Japanese, active 19th century), Looming in the central panel in Japanese dress is Saigo Takamori (1827?1877), the popular hero and influential samurai from Satsuma in Southern Kyushu. His daughter Ayako appears in the left panel. Immediately following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, there was much discontentment, particularly among the samurai who had lost all of their earlier prestige and privileges