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Monkey (Saru): Sun Wukong (Son Gokû), from the series Heroes Representing the Twelve Animals of the Zodiac (Buyû mitate jûnishi)


「武勇見立十二支 孫悟空 申」
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Minatoya Kohei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1840 (Tenpô 11)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Chûtanzaku; 35.7 x 12.4 cm (14 1/16 x 4 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16578
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Yonemura et al., Masterful Illusions (2002), #88; Suzuki et al., Utagawa Kuniyoshi ten (1996), #s 41, 42; Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S17.9
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks No censor's seal
Artist's seal: toshidama
改印: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.