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Watanabe no Tsuna Meets the Ibaraki Demon at Modoribashi Bridge (Ibaraki no oni; Modoribashi Tsuna henge ni au)


「茨鬼」 「戻橋綱逢変化」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Ezakiya Kichibei (Tenjudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1815 (Bunka 12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.4 x 50 cm (14 5/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Maxim Karolik
Accession Number64.824-5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné King and Iwakiri, Japanese Warrior Prints (2007), p. 187, fig. a
DescriptionDiptych: 64.824 (left), 64.825 (right)
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga (on each sheet)
五渡亭国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
Provenance1964, bequest of Maxim Karolik (1893-1963) to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 8, 1964)