Yatomi Yomoshichi Norikane, No. 8 from the series Mirror of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Retainers (Seichû gishin kagami) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Yatomi Yomoshichi Norikane, No. 8 from the series Mirror of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Retainers (Seichû gishin kagami)

Yatomi Yomoshichi Norikane, No. 8 from the series Mirror of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Retainers (Seichû gishin kagami)

「誠忠義臣鏡　矢富与茂七則兼　八」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Kagiya Hanjirô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1851 (Kaei 4)

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

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25 × 17.9 cm (9 13/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection

Accession Number08.543.38

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S71.1

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画

Marks Censors' seals: Hama, Magome, reverse aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：浜、馬込、改
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)