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Gen Sanmi Yorimasa, from the series Six Selected Men of Wisdom and Courage (Chiyû rokkasen)


「智勇六佳選 源三位頼政」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Keijirô (Shôrindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1850 (Kaei 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 x 25.3 cm (14 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38005
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Haubner, Die Macht des Bogens (2014), p. 104; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S67.1
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu
No blockcutter's mark
改印:福、村松
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.