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Yokozuna Grand Champion Sumô Wrestler Hidenoyama Raigorô Entering the Ring (Hidenoyama Raigorô Yokozuna dohyôiri no zu), with Tachibana Tomigorô and Akitsukaze Kumoemon


「秀ノ山雷五郎横綱土俵入之圖 橘富五郎 秋津風雲右衛門」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1843–47 (Tenpô 14–Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban diptych; 24.8 x 36.5 cm (9 3/4 x 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection
Accession Number08.541.1a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné A different print by the same artist of the same theme: Bickford, Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters (1994), fig. 98
Signed Kôchôrô Toyokuni ga
香蝶楼豊国画
Marks Censor's seal: Mera
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良
彫師:なし
ProvenanceBy date unknown, Alfred Greenough Collection, Boston, MA; 1884, by inheritance to his uncle, Charles H. Parker, Milton, MA; 1908, bequest of Charles H. Parker to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 17, 2007)