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Genji Returns to the Eight Bridges (Sono yukari kikoku no Yatsuhashi)


「其由縁国の八つ橋」
Utagawa Fusatane (Japanese, active 1854–1888)
Publisher: Kiya Sôjirô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Ôta Komakichi (Hori Koma, Hori Tashichi) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), intercalary 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.8 x 25 cm (14 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1458
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda University Library B0274 (complete triptych); Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G089 (no photo); Fukuda, Enshoku Genji-e (1991), fig. 79 (complete triptych)
DescriptionRight sheet of incomplete triptych. Probably a Meiji-era printing with aniline colors.
Signed Fusatane ga
房種画
Marks Censor's seal: Monkey intercalary 3 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Koma
改印:申壬三改
彫師:彫駒
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)