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「通俗三国志 関羽五関破図」
DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012
Guan Yu Passes Five Barriers (Kan'u gokan o yaburu no zu), from the series The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Tsûzoku Sangokushi)
「通俗三国志 関羽五関破図」
Japanese
Edo period
1853 (Kaei 6), 5th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; about 38.1 × 50.8 cm (15 × 20 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.28810-1
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T297
DescriptionDiptych (two sheets of incomplete triptych): *11.28810 (left), *11.28811 (right)
MFA impressions: *11.28810-1 (R and C sheets only; deaccessioned in 2012), 11.38166a-c (complete triptych)
MFA impressions: *11.28810-1 (R and C sheets only; deaccessioned in 2012), 11.38166a-c (complete triptych)
Signed
Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
一勇斎国芳画
Marks
Censors' seals: Hama, Magome, Ox 5
No blockcutter's mark
改印：浜、馬込、丑五
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印：浜、馬込、丑五
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.