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Enjô Jizaemon, from the series Heroes for the Twenty-eight Lunar Lodges, with Poems (Eimei nijûhasshuku)


「英名二十八衆句 遠城治左エ門」
Utagawa Yoshiiku (Japanese, 1833–1904)
Publisher: Sanoya Tomigorô (Kinseidô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Shimizu Ryūzō (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.5 × 24 cm (14 × 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41224
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), #I-239
DescriptionThe series title has also been translated Twenty-eight Famous Murders Accompanied by Verse. Half of the designs are by Yoshitoshi, half by Yoshiiku.
Signed Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga
一恵斎芳幾画
Marks Censor's seal: Hare 4 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Ryûzô tô
改印:卯四改
彫師:
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.