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Onogawa Kisaburô, from the series Ghost Stories of China and Japan (Wakan hyaku monogatari)


「和漢百物語 小野川喜三郎」
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), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.3 x 24 cm (14 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37636
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's Strange Tales (2005), p. 52, #12; U. of Tokyo, Nyûsu no tanjô (1999), p. 217, fig. 234; Bickford, Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters (1994), pl. 61; Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #10.20 (no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.37636, 11.39824
Signed Tsukioka Kaisai Yoshitoshi ga (on screen)
月岡魁斎芳年
Marks Censor's seal: Ox 9 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:丑九改
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.