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The Hour of the Dragon (Tatsu no koku), from the series The Twelve Hours in the Modern World (Tôsei jûni-doki no uchi)


「当世十二時之内 辰之刻」
Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Publisher: Sawamuraya Seikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1870 (Meiji 3), intercalary 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 × 25.5 cm (14 5/8 × 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16275
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taisei 12 (1931), #390
Signed Yoshitora ga
芳虎画
Marks Censor's seal: Horse intercalary aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:午閏改
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.