Advanced Search 
景清大仏供養 「建久元年右大将頼朝上洛の後南都東大寺大仏殿再建成就して今日供養なりしと聞いて七兵衛景清ハ山門衆徒に姿をやつし源公の旅館を詞ふ処に庄司重忠これを悟りて土卒ニ下知し漸々搦捕禁獄せしとなんつたへり」
Kagekiyo Attempts to Assassinate Yoritomo at the Great Buddha Hall of Tôdai-ji Temple, first edition
景清大仏供養 「建久元年右大将頼朝上洛の後南都東大寺大仏殿再建成就して今日供養なりしと聞いて七兵衛景清ハ山門衆徒に姿をやつし源公の旅館を詞ふ処に庄司重忠これを悟りて土卒ニ下知し漸々搦捕禁獄せしとなんつたへり」
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845 (Kôka 2)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban triptych; 36.8 x 74.7 cm (14 1/2 x 29 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.28793, 11.28794, 11.41076
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 11, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, II (1989), pl. 130 (second edition); Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T157
DescriptionTriptych: 11.28793 (right), 11.28794 (center), 11.41076 (left)
MFA impressions: 11.28793VR (11.28793, 11.28794, 11.41076; first edition), 11.22893-5 (second edition)
Full title: In 1190, after Yoritomo visited Kyoto, he completed the restoration of the Great Buddha Hall at Tôdai-ji Temple in Nara; and hearing of the dedication ceremony, Shichibyôe Kagekiyo disguised himself as a monk and spied on Yoritomo's lodgings; but Shôshi Shigetada became aware of it and ordered the soldiers to arrest Kagekiyo (Kenkyû gannen Udaishô Yoritomo jôraku no go Nanto Tôdai-ji Daibutsuden saiken seiju shite, kyô kuyô narishi to kiite, Shichibyôe Kagekiyo wa sanmon shûto ni sugata o yatsushi, Minamoto kô no ryokan o ukagau tokoro ni, Shôshi Shigetada wa kore o satorite, dosotsu ni geji shi, zenzen karametori kingoku seshi to nan tsutaeri)
MFA impressions: 11.28793VR (11.28793, 11.28794, 11.41076; first edition), 11.22893-5 (second edition)
Full title: In 1190, after Yoritomo visited Kyoto, he completed the restoration of the Great Buddha Hall at Tôdai-ji Temple in Nara; and hearing of the dedication ceremony, Shichibyôe Kagekiyo disguised himself as a monk and spied on Yoritomo's lodgings; but Shôshi Shigetada became aware of it and ordered the soldiers to arrest Kagekiyo (Kenkyû gannen Udaishô Yoritomo jôraku no go Nanto Tôdai-ji Daibutsuden saiken seiju shite, kyô kuyô narishi to kiite, Shichibyôe Kagekiyo wa sanmon shûto ni sugata o yatsushi, Minamoto kô no ryokan o ukagau tokoro ni, Shôshi Shigetada wa kore o satorite, dosotsu ni geji shi, zenzen karametori kingoku seshi to nan tsutaeri)
Signed
Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
一勇斎国芳画
Marks
Censor's seal: Watari
No blockcutter's mark
改印：渡
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：渡
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.