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Spiritual Power (Gyōriki), from the series One Hundred Pictures by Kyōsai (Kyōsai hyakuzu)


狂斎百図  「行力」
Kawanabe Kyōsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyū 3), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical yotsugiri (quarter ōban); 18.6 x 12.7 cm (7 5/16 x 5 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22654
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kaikan sanjū shūnen kinen Kawanabe Kyōsai kinen bijutsukan cat. (2008), p. 103, #0788 (sheet of 4)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.22654, 11.37010, 11.45800.54
Signed Seisei Kyōsai
惺々狂斎
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 5 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:亥五改
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.