The Great Battle between Kai Province and Echigo Province at Kawanakajima (Kôetsu Kawanakajima ôgassen)

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The Great Battle between Kai Province and Echigo Province at Kawanakajima (Kôetsu Kawanakajima ôgassen)

「甲越川中島大合戦」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1852 (Kaei 5), 4th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.4 x 75.7 cm (14 3/4 x 29 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1117-9

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Ukiyo-e dai musha-e ten/The Samurai World in Ukiyo-e (2003), #I-208; Suzuki 1992, #172; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T284

DescriptionTriptych: 00.1117 (right), 00.1118 (center), 00.1119 (left)

MFA impressions: 00.1117-9, 11.38210a-c

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画

Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Murata, Rat 4
No blockcutter's mark
改印：衣笠、村田、子四
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)