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The Battle of Yashima Dan-no-ura (Yashima Dan-no-ura kassen)


「八島檀之浦合戦」
Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1855 (Ansei 2), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.2 × 73.4 cm (14 5/8 × 28 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1277a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Japanese Woodblock Prints (2010), pp. 146-7
Signed Kinchôrô Yoshitora ga (on each sheet)
錦朝楼芳虎画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Hare 9
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、卯九
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)