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Miyamoto Musashi, from the series Biographies of Our Country's Swordsmen (Honchô kendô ryakuden)


「本朝劔道略傳 宮本武蔵」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Kazusaya Iwazô (Iwakichi) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845–46 (Kôka 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 25.8 cm (15 1/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21930
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S37.16
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.21930, 11.28664

Possibly the right sheet of a diptych, with 11.21931, 11.38006.
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Kinugasa
No blockcutter's mark
改印:衣笠
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.