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Iga no Tsubone and the Ghost of Fujiwara Nakanari, from the series One Hundred Ghost Stories from China and Japan (Wakan hyaku monogatari)


「和漢百物語 藤原仲成霊 伊賀局」
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Publisher: Daikokuya Kinnosuke (Kinjirô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, with embossing
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 24.5 cm (14 3/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16646
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's Strange Tales (2005), p. 54, #13; Stevenson, Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (2001), fig. 4; Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #10.18 (no photo)
DescriptionText by Sumida Ryôko.

MFA impressions: 11.16646, 11.22596, 11.37637, 11.37770
Signed Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi ga
一魁斎芳年画
Marks Censor's seal: Ox 9 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:丑九改
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.