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Decending Geese at Hokkyô (Hokkyô rakugan): Fujiwara no Masakiyo, from the series Military Brilliance for the Eight Views (Yôbu hakkei)


「燿武八景 北京落雁 藤原正清」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Enshûya Hikobei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.8 x 24.5 cm (14 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.28888
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Japanese Woodblock Prints (2010), p. 140; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S76.8
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.28888, 11.37968
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Rat 7
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良、渡辺、子七
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.