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Buzen Province: Miyamoto Musashi on Ganryû Island (Buzen, Ganryûjima, Miyamoto Musashi), cut from sheet 17 of the series Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue)


国尽張交図会 十七 「豊前 巌流島 宮本武三四」
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 12th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Harimaze, cut from vertical ôban sheet; 18.4 x 8 cm (7 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.8768
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiroshige Mus., Ena, Meisho no hensen (203), #2-17; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 11, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, II (1989), fig. 102; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 253, ôban #19.17
DescriptionFrom a sheet of five pictures showing Chikuzen, Buzen, Chikugo, Bungo, and Hizen provinces.

From the same sheet: 21.8766 and 21.8767 (Hizen, duplicates), 21.8768 (Buzen)
Signed (this picture unsigned)
ProvenanceNovember 1912, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.