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Yamanba, from the series One Hundred Nô Plays (Nôgaku hyakuban)


「能楽百番 山姥」
Tsukioka Kôgyo (Japanese, 1869–1927)
Publisher: Matsuki Heikichi (Daikokuya) (Japanese)
Japanese
Taishô era
1924 (Taishô 13), November

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 × 25.6 cm (14 3/4 × 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of June 2016
Accession Number2016.1502
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Schaap & Rimer, Beauty of Silence (2010), #71, and Appendix 2, #53
DescriptionThe 120 prints in this series were sold in envelopes of three sheets each, issued monthly from July 1922 to 1926 (with a gap of about a year following the disastrous earthquake of September 1923).
Signed Kôgyo
耕漁
Marks Artist's seal
ProvenanceBefore 2016, sold by Hara Shobô, Tokyo, to Anne Gordon Keidel (d. 2016), West Newton, MA; 2016, bequest of Anne Gordon Keidel to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 9, 2016)