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Ashikaga Tadayoshi, from the series One Hundred Poets from the Literary Heroes of Our Country (Honchô bunyû hyaku-nin isshu)


「本朝文雄百人一首 足利直義」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Muratetsu (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1842–43 (Tenpô 13–14)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 26.1 x 18.4 cm (10 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16588
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S22.4
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.16588, 2009.4991.105
Signed Chôôrô Kuniyoshi ga
朝櫻楼国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Muramatsu
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村松
彫師:なし
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.