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Yamayoshi Genba no jô Chikafusa, from the series Courageous Generals of Kai and Echigo Provinces: The Twenty-four Generals of the Uesugi Clan (Kôetsu yûshô den, Uesugi ke nijûyon shô)


「甲越勇将傳 上杉家二十四将 山吉玄蕃允親章」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Sumiyoshiya Masagorô
Japanese
Edo period
about 1848–49 (Kaei 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.6 x 25.5 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38032
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The series: Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S63 (this design not listed)
DescriptionNo. 10 in the series.

MFA impressions: 11.28911, 11.38032
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Murata
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良、村田
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.