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「大日本史略図会 二十九 源頼光夜土蜘蛛の怪異を斬る」
No. 29, At Night, Minamoto no Yorimitsu Kills a Monster of the Earth Spider (Minamoto no Yorimitsu yoru tsuchigumo no kaii o kiru), from the series Sketches from the History of Greast Japan (Dai Nihonshi ryaku zue)
「大日本史略図会 二十九 源頼光夜土蜘蛛の怪異を斬る」
Adachi Ginkô (Japanese, 1853–1902)
Japanese
Meiji era
1885 (Meiji 18)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Horizontal chûban; 17.5 × 23.7 cm (6 7/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016
Accession Number2016.1475
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Other prints in the series: Waseda db 201-2927, etc.
DescriptionPublished with two horizontal chûban designs on each vertical ôban sheet, with accompanying texts in the same format, presumably intended to be cut apart and reassembled as a picturebook.
Signed
(no signature visible; possibly in left margin, covered by a strip of paper)
ProvenanceJustine Frances Lewis Keidel (d. 2003), Baltimore, MD; 2003, bequeathed by Justine Frances Lewis Keidel to her daughter, Anne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)