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Oda Udaijin Taira Nobunaga, from the series Mirror of Famous Generals of Great Japan (Dai nihon meishô kagami)


「大日本名将鑑 織田右大臣平信長」
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Publisher: Funatsu Chûjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
1878 (Meiji 11), October 13

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.8 x 24.5 cm (14 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18113
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Osaka Castle Mus., Ukiyo-eshi ga egaita ransei (2018), #17; Haubner, Die Macht des Bogens (2014), p. 149; Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #27.17 (no photo)
Signed Ôju Yoshitoshi
応需芳年
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.