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Act III of the Play A Board Game of the Road to Iga Pass (Igagoe dôchû sugoroku dai san)


「伊賀越道中双六 第三」
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Publisher: Wataya Kihei (Wataki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1848 (Kôka 5/Kaei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.4 x 33.5 cm (8 7/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number11.2240
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 104; other prints in the series: Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #544
DescriptionThe MFA has four prints in the series: 06.786, 06.787, 06.1757, 11.2240.
Kitagawa 2007 dates the series to about 1848; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), suggests a date of about 1854
Signed Utagawa Kunikazu ga
歌川国員画
Marks Blockcutter's mark: Nakamura Sadashichi hori