Jô Shirô Nagamochi of Echigo Province, About to Go to War for the Taira, Sees an Apparition in the Sky (Echigo no kuni no jûnin Jô Shirô Nagamochi Heike no saisoku ni shitagai shutsujin nasu ori kara kûchû ni kaii o miru zu)

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Jô Shirô Nagamochi of Echigo Province, About to Go to War for the Taira, Sees an Apparition in the Sky (Echigo no kuni no jûnin Jô Shirô Nagamochi Heike no saisoku ni shitagai shutsujin nasu ori kara kûchû ni kaii o miru zu)

「越後国の住人城四郎長茂平家のさいそくにしたがい出陣なす折から空中に怪異を見る図」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tōbei (Kinkōdō) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1849–51 (Kaei 2–4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.7 x 77.2 cm (14 13/16 x 30 3/8 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1120-2

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T240

DescriptionTriptych: 00.1120 (center), 00.1121 (right), 00.1122 (left)

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画

Marks Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu
No blockcutter's mark
改印：福、村松
彫師：なし

ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)