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Usui Matagorô Kills a Giant Ape in the Mountains of Hida (Usui Matagorô hida sanchû ni ôzaru o utsu)


「碓井又五郎飛弾山中ニ打大猿ヲ」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1834–35 (Tenpô 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.7 x 26 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16476
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S1c.3
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.16476, 11.22195, 64.853
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
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.