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The Dragon Palace: Tawara Tôda Hidesato Is Given Three Gifts (Ryûgûjô, Tawara Tôda Hidesato ni sanshu no tosan o okuru)


「龍宮城 田原藤太秀郷に三種の土産を贈」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Maruya Kyûshirô
Japanese
Edo period
1858 (Ansei 5), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.6 x 76.5 cm (14 x 30 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22898-900
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Iwakiri 2011, #114; Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Musha-e (2003), #29; Kumon Kodomo Kenkyûjo, Ukiyo-e no kodomotachi/Children Depicted in Ukiyoe (1995), #135; Suzuki 1992, #174; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), #T354
DescriptionTriptych: 11.22898 (center), 11.22899 (right), 11.22900 (left)
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Horse 4
No blockcutter's mark
改印:午四
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 – d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.