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On the Sea at Mizumata in Hogo Province, Tametomo Encounters a Storm... (Higo no kuni Mizumata no kaijô ni te Tametomo nanpû ni au...)


「肥後の国水俣の海上にて為朝難風に遭ふ。。。」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Hikotarô (Shôgendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1836 (Tenpô 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.7 x 72.9 cm (14 7/16 x 28 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16461a-c
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Musha-e (2003), #134; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T30, and pl. 36
DescriptionThe title is partly trimmed off and not fully legible.
Signed Kuniyoshi ga (right), Chôôrô Kuniyoshi ga (center), Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (left)
国芳画 朝櫻楼国芳画 一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.