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The Two Armies Confront Each Other at Kawanakajima


甲越両軍対峙之図
Utagawa Sadahide (Japanese, 1807–1873)
Publisher: Hamadaya Tokubei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban tetraptych; 35.6 × 97.2 cm (14 × 38 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37434a-d
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné http://artinlife.nw.shopserve.jp/framart/ukiyoe_art/sadahide-02.html (complete hexaptych)
DescriptionFour right sheets of incomplete, untitled hexaptych.
Signed Gyokuransai Sadahide ga (on right sheet), Gyokuran Sadahide ga (on other sheets)
玉蘭斎貞秀画 玉蘭貞秀画
Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura (on three right sheets); Mera, Watanabe (on left sheet)
No blockcutter's mark
改印(右):村松、吉村
改印(左):米良、渡辺
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.