Early in the Morning of the 15th Day of the 12th Month, 1702, the 47 Loyal Retainers, Having Achieved Their Goal, All Crossed Ryôgoku Bridge with the Head of Their Enemy and Proceeded to the Memorial Temple (Gishi shijûshichinin honmô o toge jinsû o soroete Ryôgokubashi o hikitori kataki no kubi o shugo shite bodaisho e omomuku kono toki ni Genroku jûgonen jûnigatsu jûgonichi no sôten nari to iu) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Early in the Morning of the 15th Day of the 12th Month, 1702, the 47 Loyal Retainers, Having Achieved Their Goal, All Crossed Ryôgoku Bridge with the Head of Their Enemy and Proceeded to the Memorial Temple (Gishi shijûshichinin honmô o toge jinsû o soroete Ryôgokubashi o hikitori kataki no kubi o shugo shite bodaisho e omomuku kono toki ni Genroku jûgonen jûnigatsu jûgonichi no sôten nari to iu)

Early in the Morning of the 15th Day of the 12th Month, 1702, the 47 Loyal Retainers, Having Achieved Their Goal, All Crossed Ryôgoku Bridge with the Head of Their Enemy and Proceeded to the Memorial Temple (Gishi shijûshichinin honmô o toge jinsû o soroete Ryôgokubashi o hikitori kataki no kubi o shugo shite bodaisho e omomuku kono toki ni Genroku jûgonen jûnigatsu jûgonichi no sôten nari to iu)

「義士四拾七人本望を遂人数を揃えて良黒橋を引取敵の首汲を守護して菩提所へ赴く維時に玄禄十五年十二月十五日の早天なりしといふ」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1847–50 (Kôka 4–Kaei 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.1 x 72.9 cm (14 3/16 x 28 11/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.38224a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T209

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
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.