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Fuwa Bansaku, from the series One Hundred Ghost Stories from China and Japan (Wakan hyaku monogatari)


「和漢百物語 不破伴作」
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Text by: Kanagaki Robun (Kinton Donjin) (Japanese, 1829–1894)
Publisher: Daikokuya Kinnosuke (Kinjirô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.3 x 25.3 cm (14 5/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37621
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Newland, Yoshitoshi (2011), #41; Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's Strange Tales (2005), p. 44, #8; Addiss, Japanese Ghosts and Demons (1985, 2005), p. 41; Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #10.15 (no photo); Keyes, Bizarre Imagery of Yoshitoshi (1980), #4
DescriptionText by Kanagaki Robun.

MFA impressions: 11.37621, 11.37632, *11.39829 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.39830
Signed Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga
一魁斎芳年画
Marks Censor's seal: Ox 8 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:丑八改
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.