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Soga Gorô Tokimune (R), the Courtesan (Yûkun) Shôshô (C), and Kajiwara Genda Kagesue (L)


「曽我五郎時宗」 「遊君少将」 「梶原源太景季」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Tanbaya Hanjirô (Tanhan) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847–48 (Kôka 4–Kaei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.9 x 74.1 cm (14 1/8 x 29 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38247a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T193
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on right sheet), Chôôrô Kuniyoshi ga (on center and left sheets)
一勇斎国芳画 朝櫻楼国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Muramatsu, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村松、吉村
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.