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Min Ziqian (Bin Shiken), from the series The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety in China (Morokoshi nijûshi kô)


「唐土二十四孝 閔子騫」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1848 (Kôka 5/Kaei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 23.3 x 14.6 cm (9 3/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1144
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Iwakiri 2011, #119; Clark, Kuniyoshi from Miller Coll. (2009), #103.4; Suzuki et al., Utagawa Kuniyoshi ten (1996), #112; Suzuki 1992, #200; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S60.5; Robinson, Kuniyoshi (1961), pl. 39
DescriptionNo. 2 in the series.

MFA impressions: 06.1144, 11.30097
Signed (Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga; in right margin, cut off of this impression)
(一勇斎国芳画)
Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印:なし
彫師:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross