The Soga Brothers Achieve Their Goal in the Night Attack in the Foothills of Fuji on the 28th Day of the Fifth Month, 1193 (Kenkyû yonen gogatsu nijûhachi-nichi Fuji no susono Soga kyôdai youchi honmô no zu)

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The Soga Brothers Achieve Their Goal in the Night Attack in the Foothills of Fuji on the 28th Day of the Fifth Month, 1193 (Kenkyû yonen gogatsu nijûhachi-nichi Fuji no susono Soga kyôdai youchi honmô no zu)

「建久四年五月廿八日富士之裾野曽我兄弟夜討本望之図」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1836 (Tenpô 7)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.8 x 75.8 cm (14 1/2 x 29 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1107-9

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T35

DescriptionTriptych: 00.1107 (right), 00.1108 ( center), 00.1109 (left)

MFA impressions: 00.1107-9, 11.16514-6

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画

Marks No censor's seal
改印：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)