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The Death of Yamamoto Kansuke at the Battle of Kawanakajima on the 4th Day of the 9th Month, 1561(Eiroku yonen kugatsu yokka Kawanakajima kassen Yamamoto Kansuke nyûdô uchijini no zu)


「永禄四年九月四日川中島ノ合戦山本勘介入道討死ノ図」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1847–48 (Kôka 4–Kaei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.5 x 73 cm (14 x 28 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16502a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asahikawa Museum, Utagawa Kuniyoshi ichimon no zenbôten (2000), #1-2-31; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 5, Victoria and Albert Museum II (1987), pl. 42; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T190
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
No publisher's mark
改印:村松、吉村
彫師:なし
版元: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.