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Takeda Daizen Daibu Harunobu Nyûdô Shingen, Ready for Battle at Kawanakajima in Shinano Province in the Eleventh Month of 1553 (Tenmon nijûninen jûichigatsu Shinshû Kawanakajima shutsujin no zu)


「武田太膳太夫晴信入道信玄 天文廿二年十一月信州川中島出張之圖」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yorozuya Jûbei (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Okamoto Jirobei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.8 x 25.3 cm (14 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30343
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Shibuya Kuritsu Shôtô Bijutsukan, Musha-e (2003), #124 (complete diptych); Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S95c.4
DescriptionTop sheet of an incomplete upright diptych. One of a pair, with 11.30344.
The mark of publisher Yorozuya Jûbei appears on the missing bottom sheet of each diptych.
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Muramatsu
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Okamoto Jirobei
Artist's seal: Kuniyoshi
改印:村松
彫師:彫工岡本次郎兵衛
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.