Sun Wukong Blows on His Hairs (Gokû ke o fuku); Jô and Uba (Jô tomo ni Uba); from an untitled series known as Sketches by Yoshitoshi (Yoshitoshi ryakuga)

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Sun Wukong Blows on His Hairs (Gokû ke o fuku); Jô and Uba (Jô tomo ni Uba); from an untitled series known as Sketches by Yoshitoshi (Yoshitoshi ryakuga)

芳年略画　「悟空吹毛」　「尉與姥」

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)

Japanese

Meiji era

early 1880s

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

Dimensions Two horizontal chûban designs on uncut vertical ôban sheet; 37.1 × 25.1 cm (14 5/8 × 9 7/8 in.)

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

Accession Number2016.1365

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CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #42.15 & 41.16 (no photo)

DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.22585 (intact sheet), 2011.884.4 (bottom only), 2011.884.17 (top only), 2016.1365 (intact sheet)

Signed Yoshitoshi (on each design)
芳年

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