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「虎御前」 「曽我十郎祐成」 「曽我五郎時宗」
Tora Gozen and the Soga Brothers
「虎御前」 「曽我十郎祐成」 「曽我五郎時宗」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1844 (Tenpô 15/Kôka 1)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban triptych; 35.7 x 73.5 cm (14 1/16 x 28 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39073a-c
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Tamba (Tanba), Ukiyo-e Edo kara Hakone made (1963), #237
Signed
Kunisada aratame Nidai Toyokuni ga (on right and center sheets), Ôju Kunisada aratame Nidai Toyokuni ga (on left sheet)
国貞改二代豊国画 応需 国貞改二代豊国画
国貞改二代豊国画 応需 国貞改二代豊国画
Marks
Censor's seal: Mura
No blockcutter's mark
改印：村
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：村
彫師：なし
Inscriptions「とら御前は大いその長が娘也 父は一トせあづまにさすらへし伏見の大納言さね元の卿也 とら十七なりけるころよりすけなりとわりなく契りける ある時すけなり大いそに行うかゞひけるに折ふし頼朝卿のめしにおうじて近江の大名小名めいくわをかざり出たちつゝ打つれ／＼通りしをとらはかくすけなりのたゝれたるともしらず有しにとらがなさけを思ひうちにこそはいりにける 以上ひし川絵本武者桜の内ぬき書」
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.
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.