Ôkute: The Old Woman of the Lone House (Hitotsuya rôba), from the series Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidô Road (Kisokaidô rokujûkyû tsugi no uchi)

「木曾街道六十九次之内　大久手　一ツ家老婆」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yawataya Sakujirô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Ôtaya Takichi (Hori Takichi) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.8 x 25.5 cm (14 7/8 x 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.38972.49

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Thompson, Sixty-nine Stations (2009), #48; Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Ukiyoeshitachi no shinbutsu (1999), #4; Keyes, Ainsworth cat. (1984), #535; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S74.49

DescriptionNo. 48 in the series.

MFA impressions: 11.29009.49, 11.37105, 11.38972.49

Album: 11.38972.1-72

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画

Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Rat 7
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Takichi
Artist's seal: kiri

改印：米良、渡辺、子七
彫師：彫多吉

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.