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Sheet 1 of 12 (Jûnimai no uchi ichi), from the series One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Shuihuzhuan (Suikoden gôketsu hyakuhachinin)


「通俗水滸伝豪傑百八人 天罡星 三十六員 四枚内」 「十二枚内 一」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Daikokuya Heikichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845 (Kôka 2); first edition about 1830–31 (Tenpô 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.8 × 24.8 cm (14 1/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession Number08.543.2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Iwakiri et al., Edo no eiyû (2010), #125 (first edition); Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S3.1
DescriptionMFA impressions: 08.543.2 (Daikokuya edition), 11.1961 (Ibaya edition)
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Watari
No blockcutter's mark
改印:渡
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy date unknown, Alfred Greenough Collection, Boston, MA; 1884, by inheritance to his uncle, Charles H. Parker, Milton, MA; 1908, bequest of Charles H. Parker to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 13, 2009)