Water: Warships on the Western Sea (Hyôsen tadayou Saikai no mizu); Actor Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Taira no Tadamori, from the series Collection of Exemplars of the Five Elements (Nazorae gogyô zukushi no uchi)

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Water: Warships on the Western Sea (Hyôsen tadayou Saikai no mizu); Actor Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Taira no Tadamori, from the series Collection of Exemplars of the Five Elements (Nazorae gogyô zukushi no uchi)

「擬五行尽之内　兵船漂ふ西海の水　平知盛」五代目沢村長十郎

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Ebisuya Shōshichi (Kinshōdō) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.5 x 24 cm (14 x 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Porter Sargent

Accession Number49.1777

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Peternolli & Guidi, Kunisada (Bologna, 2017), #68; Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), p. 100; Kokubungaku kenkyû shiryôkan, ed., Zusetsu mitate to yatsushi (2008), p. 56, cat. no. 47

Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)

Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Murata
No blockcutter's mark
改印：衣笠、村田
彫師：なし

Provenance1949, gift of Porter Sargent to the MFA.