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「東海道五十三対 日坂」 小夜の中山夜啼石
Nissaka: The Nightly Weeping Rock, from the series Fifty-three Pairings for the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsui)
「東海道五十三対 日坂」 小夜の中山夜啼石
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845–46 (Kôka 2–3)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 35.8 x 23.3 cm (14 1/8 x 9 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25042
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ôta Mem. Mus., Edo yôkai dai zukan (2014), #150; Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T78-26; Schaap, Heroes and Ghosts (1998), #48; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S44.26; Addiss, Japanese Ghosts and Demons (1985, 2005), p. 43
DescriptionStation 26, from a series jointly designed by Hiroshige, Kunisada, and Kuniyoshi.
MFA impressions: 11.25042, 11.45385.26
MFA impressions: 11.25042, 11.45385.26
Signed
Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi
一勇斎国芳
一勇斎国芳
Marks
Censor's seal: Mura
No blockcutter's mark
改印：村
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：村
彫師：なし
Inscriptions昔此駅に何某の浪人妻妊娠しける 夫は忠義の為に吾妻へ趣くにその帰を待居たりし ある夜佐夜の中山沓掛松原にて盗賊出て恋慕し絶ざるにより斬殺し行衡（ゆくへ）しれず 此女日頃念ずる観世音僧と現じ亡婦の懐なる赤子に飴をあたへ養育なさしむ 夫この事をしらず 夢見あしきゆへ 急ぎ我家へ帰る道にて夜啼石（よなきいし）のはなしを聞て なほなほ奇異の思ひをなし 夜にかかり沓掛松原石の辺りを通りしに 妻の亡霊あらはれ くはしき事を物語り懐の赤子を渡し それより魂魄付まとひて終に敵を討しけり
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.