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The Death in Battle of Katsuyori on Mount Tenmoku (Tenmokuzan Katsuyori uchijini no zu)


「天目山勝頼討死ノ図」
Utagawa Kuniteru II (Kunitsuna II) (Japanese, 1830–1874)
Publisher: Sagamiya Tôkichi (Ai-To) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37 x 76 cm (14 9/16 x 29 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36837a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Haubner, Die Macht des Bogens (2014), pp. 146-7; Ôta Mus., Ukiyo-e sengoku emaki (2011), #55
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.36836a-c, 11.36837a-c
Signed Kunitsuna ga, in toshidama cartouche (on each sheet)
Marks Censor's seal: Chicken 5 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:酉五改
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: January 19, 2005)

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.