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Minamoto no Yoshitsune on Horseback


源義経
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1768–69 (Meiwa 5–6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 28.7 × 21.3 cm (11 5/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19285
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Ukiyo-e dai musha-e ten/The Samurai World in Ukiyo-e (2003), #I-54 (identified as chuban)
Signed Katsukawa Shunshô ga
勝川春章画
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.