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Educational Pictures of the Three Worlds (Kyôkun sangai zue)


「教訓三界図絵」
Utagawa Kuniteru I (Sadashige) (Japanese, active about 1820–60)
Publisher: Jôshûya Kinzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1844 (Tenpô 15/Kôka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37 x 74.1 cm (14 9/16 x 29 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36853a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Ukiyoeshitachi no shinbutsu (1999), #31; Minami, Edo no fûshiga (1997), pp. 142-2, fig. 33
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.22737VR (11.22737, 11.22738, 11.37333), 11.22739a-c, 11.36853a-c
Signed Utagawa Sadashige ga (on right and left sheets)
歌川貞重画
Marks Censor's seal: Fu
No blockcutter's mark
改印:普
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.