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Kusunoki Masashige Holds the Castle at Akasaka


楠正成赤坂城籠城
Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1849 (Kaei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.4 × 76.8 cm (14 3/4 × 30 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1282-4
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ôta Mus., Ukiyo-e sengoku emaki (2011), #132
DescriptionTriptych: 00.1282 (right), 00.1283 (center), 00.1284 (left)

MFA 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
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Yoshimura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:衣笠、吉村
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)