Minamoto Yoshinaka and His Four Retainers Defeat the Tengu in the Deep Mountains of Kiso (Minamoto Yoshinaka Shitennô to tomo ni Kiso no okuyama ni tengu o taiji su)

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Minamoto Yoshinaka and His Four Retainers Defeat the Tengu in the Deep Mountains of Kiso (Minamoto Yoshinaka Shitennô to tomo ni Kiso no okuyama ni tengu o taiji su)

「源義仲四天王トともに木曽の奥山に天狗を退治す」

Katsukawa Shunshô II (Japanese, active about 1818–1843)
Publisher: Fujiokaya Hikotarô (Shôgendô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.8 x 76.1 cm (14 1/2 x 29 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number17.3209.48-50

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionTriptych: 17.3209.48 (left), 17.3209.49 (center), 17.3209.50 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.21594-6 (complete triptych), 11.39914 (center sheet only), 17.3209.48-50 (complete triptych)

Signed Shunshô ga (on each sheet)
春章画

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)