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Minamoto Yoritomo and His Retainers Make Plans to Attack Ôshû Province

Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Publisher: Aritaya Seiemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.7 × 74 cm (14 1/16 × 29 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41398a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionÔshû Hidehira no sokunan Yasuhira Kamakura no mei ni somuki shikaba sunawachi chûbatsu aru beshi to te eichû e shôshi no ...
奥州秀衡の息男泰衡鎌倉の命に背きしかば 即 罰あるべしとて
則誅伐あるべしとて
Signed Kinchôrô Yoshitora ga (on right sheet), Ichimôsai Yoshitora ga (on center and left sheets)
錦朝楼芳虎画 一猛斎芳虎画
Marks Censor's seal: Tanaka
No blockcutter's mark
改印:田中
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.