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Aragi Settsu no kami Murashige, from the series Heroes of the Taiheiki (Taiheiki eiyû den)


「太平記英勇傳 荒儀攝津守村重」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1848–49 (Kaei 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.1 x 25.7 cm (14 3/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38047
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Toraya, Atsumeru tanoshimi (Yoshida coll., 2012), #73; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S62.4
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.