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Yamato Takeru's Wife Tachibana-hime Calms the Storm by Jumping into the Sea at Kazusa Bay


上総の浦で日本武の妻多知花姫は海に飛ぶ
Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Publisher: Muratetsu (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.2 × 74.1 cm (14 1/4 × 29 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22615-7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionTriptych: 11.22615 (left), 11.22616 (right), 11.22617 (center)
Signed Ichimôsai Yoshitora ga
一猛斎芳虎画
Marks Censor's seal: Hama
No blockcutter's mark
改印:浜
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: 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.