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Illustration from the Book Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki (Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki kanchû ryakuzu): The Wolf Yamao Attacks a Giant Serpent on Behalf of His Master and Leaves His Bones in the Mountains (Yamao--ôkami no na nari--shû no tame ni orochi o kande sanchû ni mukuro o todomu)

Illustration from the Book Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki (Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki kanchû ryakuzu): The Wolf Yamao Attacks a Giant Serpent on Behalf of His Master and Leaves His Bones in the Mountains (Yamao--ôkami no na nari--shû no tame ni orochi o kande sanchû ni mukuro o todomu)

(Japanese, died in 1856)
1840 (Tenpô 11)
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (key block); ink on paper
DimensionsVertical ôban triptych; 40.7 x 82.2 cm (16 x 32 3/8 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.45497a-c
On View
On view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceBy 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.