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Watanabe Shizuma, from the series Stories of Loyalty, Filial Piety, and Vengeance (Katakiuchi chûkô den)


「報讐忠孝傳 渡部志津馬」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yawataya Sakujirô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Ôtaya Takichi (Hori Takichi) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1847–48 (Kôka 4–Kaei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.8 x 24.4 cm (14 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38050
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S53.8
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Hama, Kinugasa
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Takichi
改印:浜、衣笠
彫師:彫工多吉
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.