No. 2, Ôtsu and Kusatsu: Hara Gôemon and Yase Kudayû, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Storehouse of Loyal Retainers (Chûshingura gojûsan tsugi) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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No. 2, Ôtsu and Kusatsu: Hara Gôemon and Yase Kudayû, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Storehouse of Loyal Retainers (Chûshingura gojûsan tsugi)

No. 2, Ôtsu and Kusatsu: Hara Gôemon and Yase Kudayû, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Storehouse of Loyal Retainers (Chûshingura gojûsan tsugi)

「忠臣蔵五十三次　大津　草津」　「原郷右エ門」、「八瀬玖太夫」　「二」

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Ebiya Rinnosuke (Kaijudô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1851 (Kaei 4)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.7 × 25 cm (14 7/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Alfred Greenough Collection

Accession Number08.543.51

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior-Prints (1982), list #S72.2

Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画

Marks Censors' seals: Kinugasa, Watanabe
No blockcutter's mark
改印：衣笠、渡辺
彫師：なし

ProvenanceBy date unknown, Alfred Greenough Collection, Boston, MA; 1884, by inheritance to his uncle, Charles H. Parker, Milton, MA; 1908, bequest of Charles H. Parker to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 13, 2009)