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Jô Shirô Nagamochi of Echigo Province, Setting out for War at the Request of the Heike, Sees an Apparition in the Sky (Echigo no kuni no junin Jô Shirô Nagamochi Heike no saisoku ni shitagai shutsujin nasu ori kara kûchû ni kaii o miru zu)


「越後国の住人城四郎長茂平家のさいそくに志たがひ出陣する折から空中に怪異を見る図」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1849–52 (Kaei 2–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.9 x 74 cm (14 1/8 x 29 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38227a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kuniyoshi Project db; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T240
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu
No blockcutter's mark
改印:福、村松
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.