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Kintaro Wrestling a Bear


金太郎と熊
Yasunobu (Japanese, active 1760s–70s)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1770–75 (Meiwa 7–12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 26.4 x 19.7 cm (10 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14683
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #670; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), pl. 639
Signed Yasunobu ga
安信画
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.