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Yamato Takeru no Mikoto, from the series Mirror of Famous Generals of Great Japan (Dai nihon meishô kagami)


「大日本名将鑑 日本武尊」
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Publisher: Kumagaya Shôshichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
about 1878–80 (Meiji 11–13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 24.2 cm (14 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18091
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Haubner, Die Macht des Bogens (2014), p. 23; Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #27.1 (no photo)
DescriptionNo. 6 on the title page of the series. No date.
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.