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The Brave General (Yûshô) Arakawa Izu no kami, from the series One Hundred Brave Generals at the Battle of Kawanakajima [in Shinano Province] ([Shinshû] Kawanakajima hyaku yûshô sen no uchi)


「川中島百勇将戦之内 勇将 荒川伊豆守」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Kazusaya Iwazô (Iwakichi) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1845 (Kôka 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.4 x 25.3 cm (14 5/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.37995
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Nagoya City Mus., Takaki Shigeru Ukiyo-e Collection (2001), #99; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S34.10
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: Fu
No blockcutter's mark
改印:普
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: January 19, 2005)

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.