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Kobayashi Asahina and Strange People from Foreign Lands


小林朝比奈と異国人
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Maruya Seijirô (Marusei, Jukakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1836 (Tenpô 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 35.5 x 69.5 cm (14 x 27 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39562a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Suzuki 1992, #97; Inagaki and Isao, Kuniyoshi no kyôga (1991), #61; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #T31
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.39562a-c, 17.3209.66-8
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (right sheet), Chôôrô Kuniyoshi ga (center and left sheets)
一勇斎国芳画 朝櫻楼国芳画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.