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Kawasaki: The Death of Nitta Yoshioki at the Yaguchi Ferry, from the series Fifty-three Pairings for the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsui)


「東海道五十三対 川崎 新田義興」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Kojimaya Jûbei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845–46 (Kôka 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.4 x 24.6 cm (13 15/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25029
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T78-03; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S44.3
DescriptionStation 03, from a series jointly designed by Hiroshige, Kunisada, and Kuniyoshi.

MFA impressions: 11.25029, *11.28622 (deaccessioned in 2012), 11.28624, 11.39579, 11.45385.3
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Mura
No blockcutter's mark
改印:村
彫師:なし
Inscriptions新田義興は竹沢右京亮江戸遠江守が姦計に欺れて矢口の渡にて亡され その志魂ととまりて 江戸が帰るさに霊魂雷になりて雲中より現れ 敵を取り殺す 後霊魂を慰めんか為に新田大明神と祟祭る その霊験今に於て倍新也
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.