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The Battle of the Fumaki River in the Earlier Taiheki 「前太平記文巻川合戦」


The Battle of the Fumaki River in the Earlier Taiheki (Zen Taiheiki Fumakigawa kassen): Taira Shinnô Masakado (R), Fujiwara Hidesato (C), and Jôheita Sadamori (L)
「前太平記文巻川合戦 平新王将門」  「前太平記文巻川合戦 藤原秀郷」  「前太平記文巻川合戦 上平太貞盛」
Katsukawa Shuntei (Shôkôsai) (Japanese, 1770–1824)
Publisher: Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1811–12 (Bunka 8–9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 38.5 x 77.7 cm (15 3/16 x 30 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26913-5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Ukiyo-e dai musha-e ten/The Samurai World in Ukiyo-e (2003), #I-100
DescriptionTriptych: 11.26913 (right), 11.26914 (center), 11.26915 (left)

MFA impressions: 11.26913-5 (complete), 11.39627 (center sheet only)
Signed Shuntei ga (on each sheet)
春亭画
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, Igaya Kinbei
改印:極、伊金
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.