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「水攻防戦之図（みづせめばうせんのづ）」（右） 「赤松水攻之図（あかまつみづせめのづ）」（左）
Attack by Flooding (Mizuseme bôsen no zu) (on right sheet), Attack by Flooding at Akamatsu (Akamatsu mizuseme no zu) (on left sheet)
「水攻防戦之図（みづせめばうせんのづ）」（右） 「赤松水攻之図（あかまつみづせめのづ）」（左）
Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1847–52 (Kôka 4–Kaei 5)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban hexaptych; 36.7 × 147.5 cm (14 7/16 × 58 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.41260a-b, 11.41364a-c, 11.41263
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ôta Mus., Ukiyo-e sengoku emaki (2011), #123 (complete); Machida City Mus. of Graphic Arts, Ukiyo-e dai musha-e ten (2003), #II-37 (right half) and p. 128, fig. 22 (left half); Minami, Edo no fûshiga (1997), pp. 178-9, fig. 44 (right half)
DescriptionHexaptych: 11.41260a-b (two left sheets), 11.41263 (right sheet), 11.41364a-c (three center sheets)
A thinly disguised illustration of Hideyoshi's attack on Takamatasu castle.
A thinly disguised illustration of Hideyoshi's attack on Takamatasu castle.
Signed
Ichimôsai Yoshitora ga (on each sheet)
一猛斎芳虎画
一猛斎芳虎画
Marks
Censors' seals: Fuku, Muramatsu (on right half); Mera, Murata (on left half)
No blockcutter's mark
改印（右）：福、村松
改印（左）：米良、村田
彫師：なし
No blockcutter's mark
改印（右）：福、村松
改印（左）：米良、村田
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: 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.
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.