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Kii Province: Ishikawa Goemon, from the series The Sixty-odd Provinces of Great Japan (Dai Nihon rokujûyoshû no uchi)


「大日本六十餘州之内 紀伊 石川五右衛門」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Other artist: Utagawa Sadamasu (Japanese, active 1840s)
Publisher: Kogaya Katsugorô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845 (Kôka 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.9 x 24.8 cm (14 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29791
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S36.52
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.29791, *11.42466 (deaccessioned in 2012)

From a series jointly designed by Kunisada and Kuniyoshi, with insets by various pupils of the two main artists.
Signed Ôju Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga (on main image), Toyokuni monjin Sadamasu ga (on inset)
応需一陽斎豊国画、豊国門人貞益画
Marks Censor's seal: Watari
No blockcutter's mark
改印:渡
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.