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「右大将頼朝公鶴岡八幡宮へ法楽のため千羽の鶴を放生会を行ひやふの図」
As an Offering to the Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine, Lord Yoritomo, the Major Captain of the Right, Conducts a Liberation Ceremony and Releases a Thousand Cranes (Udaishô Yoritomo kô Tsurugaoka Hachimangû e hôraku no tame senba no tsuru o hôjôe o okanai yô no zu)
「右大将頼朝公鶴岡八幡宮へ法楽のため千羽の鶴を放生会を行ひやふの図」
Japanese
Edo period
about 1842–43 (Tenpô 13–14)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban triptych; 36.7 x 73.7 cm (14 7/16 x 29 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16523-5
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Ukiyo-e dai musha-e ten/The Samurai World in Ukiyo-e (2003), #I-185; Nagoya City Mus., Takaki Shigeru Ukiyo-e Collection (2001), #73; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T118
DescriptionTriptych: 11.16523 (left), 11.16524 (right), 11.16525 (center)
Signed
Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
一勇斎国芳画
Marks
Censor's seal: Hama
No blockcutter's mark
改印：浜
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：浜
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.
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.