Kobayashi Asahina and Strange People from Foreign Lands

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Kobayashi Asahina and Strange People from Foreign Lands

小林朝比奈と異国人

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Maruya Seijirô (Marusei, Jukakudô) (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 76.7 cm (14 1/2 x 30 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number17.3209.66-8

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Suzuki 1992, #97; Inagaki and Isao, Kuniyoshi no kyôga (1991), #61; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T31

DescriptionTriptych: 17.3209.66 (left), 17.3209.67 (center), 17.3209.68 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.39562a-c, 17.3209.66-8

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (right sheet), Chôôrô Kuniyoshi ga (center and left sheets)
一勇斎国芳画　朝櫻楼国芳画

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)