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The Demon's Arm Is Presented at Court, from an untitled series of the Shutendôji story


酒呑童子 鬼の片腕
Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, died 1694)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1680 (Enpô 8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied coloring added later
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 27.2 x 35 cm (10 11/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13426
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Art Mus., Hishikawa Moronobu ten (2000), cat. no. 67
DescriptionNo. 02 in the series as listed in Chiba City Art Museum, Hishikawa Moronobu ten (2000), cat. nos. 66 to 83. 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 (Shutendôji's drinking party, Chiba cat. no 75). The publisher, Urokogataya Sanzaemon, is given on the final sheet.
Signed Unsigned
無款
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.