Puns Just Like This: The Fifty-three Cats of the Ailurophile (Sono mama jiguchi: Myōkaikō gojūsan biki) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Puns Just Like This: The Fifty-three Cats of the Ailurophile (Sono mama jiguchi: Myōkaikō gojūsan biki)

Puns Just Like This: The Fifty-three Cats of the Ailurophile (Sono mama jiguchi: Myōkaikō gojūsan biki)

「其まゝ地口（そのままじぐち）　猫飼好五十三疋（みやうかいこうごじうさんびき）　上」　　「中」　　「下」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Ibaya Senzaburō (Dansendō) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 37.1 × 76.2 cm (14 5/8 × 30 in.)

Credit Line Keith McLeod Fund

Accession Number2019.193a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画

Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Murata
No blockcutter's mark
改印：米良、村田
彫師：なし

ProvenanceBy 1961, Basil William Robinson (b. 1912– d. 2005), London [see note]; November 7, 2007, posthumous B. W. Robinson sale (sale 7432), Christie’s, London, lot 611, to Sebastian Izzard (dealer), New York; sold by Sebastian Izzard to a private collector, who sold it back; 2019, sold by Sebastian Izzard to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 24, 2019)