/internal/media/dispatcher/1037711/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Fight at Nijō Horikawa, from an untitled series of the Shutendōji storyabout 1680 (Enpō 8)Hishikawa MoronobuHorizontal ōban; 27 x 35.1 cm (10 5/8 x 13 13/16 in.)Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color added laterWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection11.170780No. 07 in the series as listed in Chiba City Art Museum, Hishikawa Moronobu ten (2000), cat. nos. 66 to 83.
Forms the left sheet of a diptych, with 11.13428 as the right sheet. In this scene, the father of the kidnapped lady, with his followers, attacks the suitor he thinks is responsible for her disappearance.
The final print in the series (see 11.13424) has the number "19," but only 18 prints are known. The MFA has 17 of them, lacking only no. 10 (Shutendōji's drinking party, Chiba cat. no 75). The publisher, Urokogataya Sanzaemon, is given on the final sheet.Prints27.000000000020921201