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「童戯武者尽」 俵藤太秀郷のむかで油（上） 「童戯武者尽」 薩摩守平忠度の焼き芋（下）
Tawara Tôda Selling Centipede Oil Medicine (top) and Satsuma no kami Tadanori Selling Roasted Potatos (bottom), from the series A Collection of Comical Warriors (Dôke musha zukushi)
「童戯武者尽」 俵藤太秀郷のむかで油（上） 「童戯武者尽」 薩摩守平忠度の焼き芋（下）
Japanese
Edo period
1854 (Kaei 7/Ansei 1), 8th 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 25.7 cm (14 3/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17218
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hiraki Mus., Hiroshige no giga (2023), #s 104-5; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 235, horizontal chûban #30.14 (above) and #30.09? (below)
Signed
Hiroshige gihitsu (on each design)
広重戯筆
広重戯筆
Marks
Censor's seals: aratame, Tiger 8
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、寅八
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、寅八
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.
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.