Portraits of Yazama Kinai and Wakajima Yasuemon, from the series Participants in the Night Attack in The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon Chûshingura youchi jinsû no uchi)

Signed

Ôju Gototei Kunisada ga 応需五渡亭国貞画

Marks

Censor's seal: kiwame 改印: 極

Provenance

By 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.

Credit Line

William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Japanese, Edo period, 1820s

• Artist Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III), Japanese, 1786–1864
• Publisher Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô), Japanese

Collections

Asia

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