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In the Great Battle between the Minamoto and the Taira at Akama Bay in Nagato Province, the Taira Clan Are Utterly Destroyed (Nagato no kuni Akama no ura ni oite Genpei ôgassen Heike ichimon kotogotoku horobiru zu)


「長門国赤間の浦に於いて源平大合戦平家一門悉く亡びる図」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Kobayashi Tetsujirô (Maruya Tetsujirô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845–46 (Kôka 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 38 x 78 cm (14 15/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1096-8
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Nagoya City Mus., Takaki Shigeru Ukiyo-e Collection (2001), #72; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T163
DescriptionTriptych: 00.1096 (left), 00.1097 (center), 00.1098 (right)

MFA impressions: 00.1085 (center sheet only, pub. Maru-Tetsu), 00.1096-8 (pub. Maru-Tetsu), 11.41062a-c (pub. Enshûya Matabei; first edition?)
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Muramatsu
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村松
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)