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Kazusa no Shichibyôe Kagekiyo, from the series Lives of a Hundred Heroes of High Renown (Meikô hyakuyû den)


「名高百勇傳 上総七兵衛景清」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1843–44 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.7 x 25.1 cm (14 7/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38099
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S31.4
Signed Chôôrô Kuniyoshi ga
朝櫻楼国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Watari
No blockcutter's mark
改印:渡
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.