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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS
(LOTS 24-83)

75 UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)

Tairyo kujira no nigiwabi

(Crowds out to view captured
whale)

Woodblock print, triptych, each signed
Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga, published by Maruya
Seijiro (Jukakudo), circa 1851-53
Vertical oban triptych: 14¿ x 10 in. (35.9 x 25.4
cm.) each approx. (3)

$7,000-9,000

PROVENANCE:
Raymond A. Bidwell (1876-1954), Springfield,
Massachusetts

EXHIBITED:
“Ukiyo-e from The Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield,
MA”, exh. cat. p. 88, no. 18, exhibited at the following
venues:
Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, 4 June-3 July, 1994
Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo
Prefecture, 16 July-21 August, 1994
Yokkaichi Municipal Museum, Mie Prefecture, 1 September-4
October, 1994
“Utagawa Kuniyoshi”, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts,
Springfield, Massachusetts, 1980, exh. cat. pl. 156
“Exhibition of Ukiyo-e by Utagawa Kuniyoshi”, Riccar
Art Museum, Tokyo, 23 November-24 December, 1978,
exh. cat. pl. 284

LITERATURE:
The Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Prints by Utagawa
Kuniyoshi (Massachusetts: The Raymond A. Bidwell and
Bertha U. Bidwell Fund, 1968), pl. 66.