PT2072

Kigatsu, Hirado, west coast of Japan Long Caption: A view out from a bay, with the small coastal village of the title in the foreground. Kigatsu, and Kigatsu Ura (bay) are on the east side of Hirado island, south of modern Hirado City, looking east towards Kyushu island north of Nagasaki. The low island partly seen to the right is No-shima, the conical one beyond the end of the promontory on the left Kuro-shima: see also PAJ2073. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: PAJ2072 Artist: Lt. James Henry Butt Date: September 1868 Medium: watercolour Size: 124 mm x 172 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.