Izutsu, from the series One Hundred Nô Plays (Nôgaku hyakuban) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Izutsu, from the series One Hundred Nô Plays (Nôgaku hyakuban)

Izutsu, from the series One Hundred Nô Plays (Nôgaku hyakuban)

「能楽百番　井筒」

Tsukioka Kôgyo (Japanese, 1869–1927)
Publisher: Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya) (Japanese)

Japanese

Taishô era

1922–26 (Taishô 11–15)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.1 x 25.4 cm (15 x 10 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark in honor of Sarah E. Thompson

Accession Number2011.1695

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Schaap & Rimer, Beauty of Silence (2010), Appendix 2, #49

DescriptionThe 120 prints in this series were sold in envelopes of three sheets each, issued monthly from July 1922 to 1926 (with a gap of about a year following the disastrous earthquake of September 1923).

Signed Kôgyo
耕漁

Marks Artist's seal: Tsukioka

ProvenanceFebruary, 2002, purchased from the Hara Shobo store, Tokyo, by Sue Cassidy Clark, New York; 2011, gift of Sue Cassidy Clark to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 2011)