The Cry of the Fox (Konkai), from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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The Cry of the Fox (Konkai), from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)

The Cry of the Fox (Konkai), from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)

「月百姿　吼（口偏＋歳）」

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Publisher: Akiyama Buemon (Japanese)

Japanese

Meiji era

1886 (Meiji 19), January

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.1 x 25 cm (14 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Karen Anne Zee and Eric Riedel

Accession Number2016.556

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (2001), #13; Keyes, Bizarre Imagery of Yoshitoshi (1980), #48

Signed Yoshitoshi
芳年

Marks Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Enkatsu

ProvenanceOctober 1976, gift of Signe and Karl Hansen, Boxboro, MA, to Karen Anne Zee, Brookline, MA; 2016, gift of Karen Anne Zee and Eric Riedel to the MFA. (Accession date: November 9, 2016)