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No. 31, Okajima Yasoemon Fujiwara no Tsuneki (R), and No. 32, Hazama Jûjirô Fujiwara no Mitsuoki (L), from the series Pictorial Biographies of the Loyal Retainers (Seichû gishi meimei gaden)


誠忠義士銘々画伝 「岡島八十右衛藤原常樹 三十一」 「間十二郎藤原光奥 三十二」
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Japanese
Meiji era
1869 (Meiji 2), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Two vertical chûban prints on uncut horizontal ôban sheet; 25.4 x 37 cm (10 x 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21196
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Yoshitoshi hitsu (on each design)
芳年筆
Marks Censor's seal: Snake 2 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
Artist's seal: kiri
改印:巳二改
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.