Repelling the Mongol Pirate Ships (Môko zokusen taiji no zu)

「蒙古賊船退治之図」

Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 8th month
Artist Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)

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Catalogue Raisonné

Bakumatsu Meiji no tensai eshi Kawanabe Kyôsai ten (1998), #90; Edo-Tokyo Museum, Kawanabe Kyôsai to Edo Tôkyô (1994), #31; Clark, Demon of Painting (1993), p. 117, fig. 74.1; Konishi, Nishiki-e Bakumatsu Meiji no rekishi 3 (1977), pp. 14-5; Asai 1, p. 82

Dimensions

Vertical ôban triptych; 37.8 x 76.5 cm (14 7/8 x 30 1/8 in.)

Accession Number

11.18148-50

Medium or Technique

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

Not On View

Collections

Asia, Prints and Drawings

Classifications

Prints

Signed

Seisei Kyôsai (on left sheet)
惺々狂斎

Markings

Censor's seal: Boar 8 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印：亥八改
彫師：なし

Provenance

By 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 – d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (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.

Credit Line

William Sturgis Bigelow Collection