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「椿説弓張月 巻中略図 山雄（やまを）、狼ノ名也、主（しう）のために蟒蛇（おろち）を噛んで山中に骸を止む」
Illustration from the Book Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki (Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki kanchû ryakuzu): The Wolf Yamao Attacks a Giant Serpent on Behalf of His Master and Leaves His Bones in the Mountains (Yamao--ôkami no na nari--shû no tame ni orochi o kande sanchû ni mukuro o todomu)
「椿説弓張月 巻中略図 山雄（やまを）、狼ノ名也、主（しう）のために蟒蛇（おろち）を噛んで山中に骸を止む」
Manjirô Hokuga (Japanese, died in 1856)
Japanese
Edo period
1840 (Tenpô 11)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (key block); ink on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban triptych; 40.7 x 82.2 cm (16 x 32 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.45497a-c
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
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-217; Dai yôkai ten (2000), #75; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 3 (1963), #s 3896-8
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.26890-2 (color), 11.45497a-c (key block), 17.3209.51-3 (color)
The mark of the publisher, Kawaguchiya Shôzô, is in a color block and so does not appear on this key block print.
The mark of the publisher, Kawaguchiya Shôzô, is in a color block and so does not appear on this key block print.
Signed
Manjirô Hokuga (on each sheet)
卍楼北鵞
卍楼北鵞
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
改印：極
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.
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.