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The Great Battle of the Minamoto and the Taira at the Palace of Suma in Settsu Province (Sesshû Suma no dairi Genpei ôgassen no zu)


「摂州須磨内裏源平大合戦之図」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1822–24 (Bunsei 5–7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.9 x 75.8 cm (14 1/2 x 29 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.3209.33-5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné King and Iwakiri, Japanese Warrior Prints (2007), #126 (pentaptych, Nishimuraya edition)
DescriptionTriptych (three right sheets of incomplete pentaptych?): 17.3209.33 (left), 17.3209.34 (center), 17.3209.35 (right)

This triptych is also known as part of a pentaptych published by Nishimuraya Eijudô, apparently from the same blocks with only the publisher's marks altered.
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga (on each sheet)
五渡亭国貞画
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)