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The Trigram Zhen or Thunder (Shin, kaminari), from the series Pictures of the Eight Trigrams in Chinese Divination (Shûeki hakke e)


「周易八卦絵 震雷」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Jôshûya Kinzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 25.5 cm (14 9/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16468
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Yonemura et al., Masterful Illusions (2002), #106; Suzuki 1992, #215
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
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.