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Yokozuna Grand Champion Entering the Ring: Jinmaku Hisagorô from Satsuma Province (Yokozuna dohyôiri no zu, Sasshû Jinmaku Hisagorô)


「横綱 土俵入之圖 薩州陣幕久五郎」
Utagawa Kuniteru II (Kunitsuna II) (Japanese, 1830–1874)
Publisher: Daikokuya Heikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 x 25.5 cm (14 5/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45002
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kuniteru ga
画輝画
Marks Censor's seal: Hare 4 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:卯四改
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: January 19, 2005)

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.