Ôboshi Seizaemon Nobukiyo, 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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Ôboshi Seizaemon Nobukiyo, from the series Mirror of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Retainers (Seichû gishin kagami)

Ôboshi Seizaemon Nobukiyo, from the series Mirror of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Retainers (Seichû gishin kagami)

「誠忠義臣鏡　大星勢左エ門信清」

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 × 16 cm (9 13/16 × 6 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection

Accession Number08.543.43

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S71.6

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)