In the Great Battle between the Minamoto and the Taira at Akama Bay in Nagato Province, the Taira Clan Are Utterly Destroyed (Nagato no kuni Akama no ura ni oite Genpei ôgassen Heike ichimon kotogotoku horobiru zu)

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In the Great Battle between the Minamoto and the Taira at Akama Bay in Nagato Province, the Taira Clan Are Utterly Destroyed (Nagato no kuni Akama no ura ni oite Genpei ôgassen Heike ichimon kotogotoku horobiru zu)

長門国赤間の浦に於いて源平大合戦平家一門悉く亡びる図

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Kobayashi Tetsujirô (Maruya Tetsujirô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1845–46 (Kôka 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.9 x 26 cm (14 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.1085

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Nagoya City Mus., Takaki Shigeru Ukiyo-e Collection (2001), #72; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T163

DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych; title is on left sheet.

MFA impressions: 00.1085 (center sheet only, pub. Maru-Tetsu), 00.1096-8 (complete, pub. Maru-Tetsu), 11.41062a-c (complete, pub. Enshûya Matabei; first edition?)

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画

Marks Censor's seal: Muramatsu
No blockcutter's mark
改印：村松
彫師：なし

ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)