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Hyûga Province: Hitomaru, from the series The Sixty-odd Provinces of Great Japan (Dai Nihon rokujûyoshû no uchi)


「大日本六十余州之内 日向 人丸」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Other artist: Utagawa Sadakage I (Japanese, active about 1818–1844)
Publisher: Jôshûya Kinzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845 (Kôka 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.2 x 23.3 cm (14 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29784
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S36.64
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.29784, *11.29788 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.42474

From a series jointly designed by Kunisada and Kuniyoshi, with insets by various pupils of the two main artists.
Signed Kôchôrô Toyokuni ga (on main image); Monjin Sadakage ga (on inset)
香蝶楼豊国画、門人貞景画
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.