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Kintoki Selling Beans to Demons (top) and Nasu no Yoichi in an Archery Gallery (bottom), from the series A Collection of Warriors for the Amusement of Children (Dôgi musha zukushi)


「童戯武者尽」 鬼に豆を売る金時(上)  「童戯武者尽」 矢場に那須の与一(下)
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1), 12th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Two horizontal chûban designs on uncut vertical ôban sheet; 36.1 x 25.1 cm (14 3/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17217
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiraki Mus., Hiroshige no giga (2023), #s 112-3; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 235, horizontal chûban #30.5 (top) and #30.19 (bottom)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.17217 (uncut sheet), 21.6575 (upper half only), 21.6576 (lower half only)
Signed Hiroshige gihitsu (on each design)
広重戯筆
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Tiger 12
No blockcutter's mark
改印:改、寅十二
彫師: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.