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楠正成赤坂城籠城
Kusunoki Masashige Holds the Castle at Akasaka
楠正成赤坂城籠城
Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Japanese
Edo period
1849 (Kaei 2)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban triptych; 35.7 × 73.8 cm (14 1/16 × 29 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41399a-c
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ôta Mus., Ukiyo-e sengoku emaki (2011), #132
DescriptionMFA impressions: 00.1282-4 (with mark of publisher Izumiya Ichibei), 11.41399a-c (no publisher's mark)
Signed
Ichimôsai Yoshitora ga (on each sheet)
一猛斎芳虎画
一猛斎芳虎画
Marks
Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印：衣笠、吉村
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：衣笠、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.
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.