In the Ten'an Era, During the Attack on Balhae, Satô Shukeiryô Masakiyo Looks Back from the Shore at Mount Fuji (Ten'an nenchû Satô Shukeiryô Masakiyo Bokkaikoku seibatsu no hi kaigan yori Fuji no yama o miru)

「天安年中佐藤主計助政清渤海国征戦の日海岸より芙蓉峯（ふじのやま）を見る」

Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Publisher: Sagamiya Tôkichi (Ai-To) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Ôta Komakichi (Hori Koma, Hori Tashichi) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1860 (Ansei 7/Man'en 1), intercalary 3rd month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.7 × 72.9 cm (14 1/16 × 28 11/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.41344a-c

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kang Duksang, ed., Nishiki-e no naka no Chôsen to Chûgoku (2007), #19

DescriptionTen'an = 850s

Signed Yoshitora ga (on each sheet)
芳虎画

Marks Censor's seal: Monkey intercalary 3 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Komakichi (on right and center sheets)
改印：申壬三改
彫師：彫駒吉

ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.