When the Lay Priest Saimyôji Tokiyori Was Travelling through the Various Provinces, He Stayed at the Humble Home of Tsuneyo and His Wife and Became Aware of Their Loyalty and Virtue (Saimyôji Tokiyori nyûdô shokoku shugyô no ori kara Tsuneyo ga bôoku ni yadorite fûfu no chûgi teisô o awaremu zu)

「西明寺時頼入道諸国修行の折から常世が茅屋に宿りて夫婦の忠義貞操を憐れむ図」　「佐野源左エ門常世」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Sakurai Yasubei (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1842–43 (Tenpô 13–14)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.2 × 25 cm (14 1/4 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016

Accession Number2016.1353

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T110

DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete triptych.

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画

Marks Censor's seal: Watari
No blockcutter's mark
改印：渡
彫師：なし

ProvenanceAnne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)