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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Yamato Province: Fox (Kitsune) Tadanobu, from the series The Sixty-odd Provinces of Great Japan (Dai Nihon rokujûyoshû no uchi)


「大日本六十余州之内 大和 狐忠信」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Other artist: Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) (Japanese, 1823–1880)
Publisher: Aritaya Seiemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845 (Kôka 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.3 x 24.3 cm (13 7/8 x 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29782
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S36.2
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.15635, *11.29782 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.29896

From a series jointly designed by Kunisada and Kuniyoshi, with insets by various pupils of the two main artists.
Signed Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga (on main image); Toyokuni monjin Kunimasa ga (on inset)
一陽斎豊国画、豊国門人国政画
Marks Censor's seal: Watari
No blockcutter's mark
改印:渡
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.