Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Shôguntarô Taira no Yoshikado (C), with Iga Jutarô (R) and Takiyasha-hime (L), Watching a Battle of Frogs


「伊賀寿太郎」  「将軍太郎平良門」  「滝夜叉姫」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yawataya Sakujirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1844 (Tenpô 15/Kôka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37 x 75.5 cm (14 9/16 x 29 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41809a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Mem. Mus., Edo yôkai dai zukan (2014), #210; Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Ukiyo-e dai musha-e ten/The Samurai World in Ukiyo-e (2003), #I-184; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T89
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (right sheet), Chôôrô Kuniyoshi ga (center and left sheets)
一勇斎国芳画 朝櫻楼国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Mura
No blockcutter's mark
改印: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.