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The Defeat of the Evil Nine-tailed Fox on Nasu Moor in Shimotsuke Province (Shimotsuke no kuni Nasu no hara kyûbi no akko no taiji no zu)


「下野の国 奈須の原 九尾の悪狐退治」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1834 (Tenpô 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.3 x 75.6 cm (14 5/16 x 29 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3209.69-71
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Suzuki et al., Utagawa Kuniyoshi ten (1996), #37; Suzuki 1992, #98; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T24
DescriptionTriptych: 17.3209.69 (left), 17.3209.70 (center), 17.3209.71 (right)
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
ProvenanceBy 1917, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 – d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; April 5, 1917, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 5, 1917)