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Sheet 1 of 10 (Jûmaitsuzuki no ichi), from the series Comical Pictures of the One Hundred Eight Valiant Heroes of the Shuihuzhuan (Kyôga Suikoden gôketsu hyakuhachinin)


「狂画水滸伝豪傑一百八人 十番続之内壹」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yorozuya Kichibei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1827 (Bunsei 10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 25.5 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.38842
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Kuniyoshi & Kunisada (2016), #72; Inagaki and Isao, Kuniyoshi no kyôga (1991), #51
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.