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When Kusunoki Masatsura Observed the Forces from Kyoto Setting Out, He Gathered His Warriors and Discussed with Them the Strategy for Defeating the Enemy and the Preparations for Making War (Kusunoki Masatsura Kyôgun no hakkô o mite shoshi o tsudoete teki o furi no bô ikusadachi no tekubari o gishi tamau zu)


「楠正行京軍の発向を見て諸士を集へて敵を降の謀軍立の手賦を議し給ふ図」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1839–41 (Tenpô 10–12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.3 x 73.2 cm (14 5/16 x 28 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38161a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Ukiyo-e dai musha-e ten/The Samurai World in Ukiyo-e (2003), #II-70; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T79
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.