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)

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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)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Shôzô (Shôeidô, Eisendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1840 (Tenpô 11)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.3 x 75.5 cm (13 7/8 x 29 3/4 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number17.3209.51-3

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-217; Dai yôkai ten (2000), #75; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 3 (1963), #s 3896-8

DescriptionTriptych: 17.3209.51 (left), 17.3209.52 (center), 17.3209.53 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.26890-2 (color), 11.45497a-c (key block), 17.3209.51-3 (color)

Signed Manjirô Hokuga (on each sheet)
卍楼北鵞

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceBy 1917, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 – d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; April 5, 1917, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 5, 1917)