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Comical Pictures of Chess Pieces (Kyôga shôgi tsukushi)


「狂画将棋つくし」
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Publisher: Kakumotoya Kinjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.9 x 76.9 cm (14 1/8 x 30 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37804a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Museum of Kyoto, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi ten (2001), #139
Signed Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga (left sheet), Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi hitsu (center sheet), Yoshitoshi ga (right sheet)
一魁斎芳年画 一魁斎芳年筆
Marks Censor's seal: Monkey 8 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:申八改
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.