Seba: Musashibô Benkei and Tosabô Shôshun, 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　洗馬　武蔵坊弁慶　土佐坊昌俊」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yawataya Sakujirô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Tsuge Shôjirô (Hori Shôji) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5), 8th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 25.6 cm (14 9/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.29009.33

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Thompson, Sixty-nine Stations (2009), #32; Keyes, Ainsworth cat. (1984), #519; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S74.33

DescriptionNo. 32 in the series.

MFA impressions: 11.29009.33, 11.37090, 11.38972.33

Album: 11.29009.1-72

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画

Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Murata, Rat 8
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Shôji
Artist's seal: kiri
改印：衣笠、村田、子八
彫師：彫庄治

ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

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.