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Inuyama Dôsetsu Tadatomo, from the series The Eight Dog Heroes of the Master Author Old Kyokutei Bakin (Kyokutei-ô seicho Hakkenshi zui-ichi)


「曲亭翁精著八犬士随一 犬山道節忠知」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1835 (Tenpô 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 24.9 cm (14 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38054
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S5.6
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
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.