In the Ryakuô Era (1338–42), the Forty-seven Retainers of En'ya Hangan Make a Night Attack on Their Sworn Enemy Kôno Moronao (Ryakuô nenchû En'ya Hangan keshi yonjûshichi-ki onteki Kôno Moronao youchi no zu) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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In the Ryakuô Era (1338–42), the Forty-seven Retainers of En'ya Hangan Make a Night Attack on Their Sworn Enemy Kôno Moronao (Ryakuô nenchû En'ya Hangan keshi yonjûshichi-ki onteki Kôno Moronao youchi no zu)

In the Ryakuô Era (1338–42), the Forty-seven Retainers of En'ya Hangan Make a Night Attack on Their Sworn Enemy Kôno Moronao (Ryakuô nenchû En'ya Hangan keshi yonjûshichi-ki onteki Kôno Moronao youchi no zu)

「暦応年中塩治（＝谷）判官家士四十七騎怨敵高野師直夜討之図」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Sanoya Kihei (Kikakudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1839–41 (Tenpô 10–12)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.7 x 76 cm (14 7/16 x 29 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number17.3209.72-4

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T80

DescriptionTriptych: 17.3209.72 (left), 17.3209.73 (center), 17.3209.74 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.28715-6 (two left sheets only), 17.3209.72-4 (complete triptych)

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

Marks No censor's seal
No blockcutter's mark
改印：なし
彫師：なし

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)