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Taira no Koremochi, from the series Mirror of Famous Generals of Great Japan (Dai nihon meishō kagami)


「大日本名将鑑 平惟茂」
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Publisher: Funatsu Chūjirō (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1879 (Meiji 12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ōban; 36.7 x 25 cm (14 7/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18093
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Heroes (2022), #U-27; Machida City Mus., Hanga hachijūnen no kiseki (1996), p. 161, #(4)-87; Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #27.9 (no photo)
Signed Ōju Yoshitoshi
応需芳年
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.