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At Fujito Harbor in Nishikawajiri, Harima Province, Sasaki Moritsuna Crosses the Inland Sea on Horseback (Banshû Nishikawajiri Fujito hama Sasaki Moritsuna kiba ni te umi o wataru)


「播州西河尻藤戸濱佐々木盛綱騎馬にて海を渉る」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1849–50 (Kaei 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.4 x 72.5 cm (14 5/16 x 28 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41079a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 11, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, II (1989), pl. 128; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T220
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (on each sheet)
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Watanabe, reverse aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:衣笠、渡辺、改
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.