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Sawarabi: In China, Wu Song the Ascetic (Morokoshi, Gyôja Bushô), from the series Japanese and Chinese Comparisons for the Chapters of Genji (Wakan nazorae Genji)


「和漢準源氏 唐土 行者武松 早蕨」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Iseyoshi (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Tsuge Shôjirô (Hori Shôji) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1855 (Ansei 2), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 25.4 cm (14 9/16 x 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16457
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S88.48; the series: Marks et al., Genji's World (2012), list #G458 (no photos)
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Hare 7
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Shôji
改印:改、卯七
彫師:彫庄治
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.