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Illustration of the Command Performance of the Great Chiarini's Circus (Chiyarine daikyokuba goyûran no zu)


「チヤリネ大曲馬御遊覧之圖」
Yôshû Chikanobu (Hashimoto Chikanobu) (Japanese, 1838–1912)
Publisher: Komiya(ma) Shôhei (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1886 (Meiji 19), November

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 34 x 71.2 cm (13 3/8 x 28 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection
Accession Number2000.493a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Virgin et al., Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age (MFA, 2001), fig. 2. p. 11; Keene, "Portraits," Impressions 21 (1999), fig. 6; Sharf, Imaging Meiji (1997), #7, photo p. 29; Konishi, Nishiki-e bakumatsu Meiji no rekishi 9 (1977), pp. 103-5 (foldout)
Signed Ôju Yôshû Chikanobu hitsu
Marks Artist's seal: toshidama
ProvenancePurchased between 1985 and 1999, probably in London or Tokyo; 2000, gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 26, 2000)