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The Battle of Hyôgo in the Taiheiki: Shirofuji Hikoshichirô (Taiheiki Hyôgo kassen, Shirofuji Hikoshichirô)


「太平記兵庫合戦 白藤彦七郎」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Jôshûya Kinzô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Hori Sashichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1849–52 (Kaei 2–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.7 x 75.1 cm (14 7/16 x 29 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38245a-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-46; Nagoya City Mus., Takaki Shigeru Ukiyo-e Collection (2001), #120; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T243
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu
Blockcutter's mark: Sashichi koku (center sheet)
改印:福、村松
彫師:佐七刻
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.