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Buyû sakigake zue (Pictures of Valiant Warriors)


武勇魁図絵
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Blockcutter: Egawa Sentarô (Japanese)
Publisher: Eirakuya Tôshirô (Tôhekidô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Tawaraya Seibei
Publisher: Fûgetsu Shôzaemon (Japanese)
Publisher: Akitaya Taemon (Sôeidô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Kawachiya Mohei (Gungyokudô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Kawachiya Wasuke (Japanese)
Publisher: Kawachiya Kihei (Japanese)
Publisher: Izumiya Kin'emon (Japanese)
Publisher: Suharaya Ihachi (Seireikaku) (Japanese)
Publisher: Suharaya Shinbei (Kobayashi Shinbei, Sûzanbô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Okadaya Kashichi (Japanese)
Publisher: Yamashiroya Sahei
Publisher: Suharaya Mohei (Senshôbô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era
late printing, after 1860

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions Overall: 22.7 x 15.7 cm (8 15/16 x 6 3/16 in.); hanshibon
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number2019.1189
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Signed artist: ukiyo gakô Keisai Eisen gazu
浮世画工渓斎英泉画図
Marks collection label of William Sturgis Bigelow ("WSB")
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; By 1926, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 7, 2019)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.