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Description Legend: "The great ships full of boys and girls sent in search of the immortal medicine (Hôraizan) by the Chinese Emperor Shih Huang Ti (Shikôtei), c. 219 BCE". A 19th century ukiyo-e by Kuniyoshi depicting the ships of the great sea expedition sent around 219 BC by the first Chinese Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, to find the legendary home of the immortals, the Mount Penglai, and retrieve the elixir of immortality.
Date between circa 1839 and circa 1841
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1839-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1841-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source http://www.kuniyoshiproject.com/Warrior%20triptychs%201839-1841,%20Part%20I%20%28T47-T62%29.htm
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi  (1798–1861)  wikidata:Q317736
 
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
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Ichiyusai
Description Japanese ukiyo-e artist, painter and printmaker
Date of birth/death 1 January 1798 / 1797 / 1798 Edit this at Wikidata 14 April 1861 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Edo Edo, today Tokyo
Work period 1814 Edit this at Wikidata–
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