Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
71.1.19
Musa
1852 – 1861 (Date created)
Ink
Woodcut print;Color
Prints
0 in L x 9.75 in W x 14.5 in H x 0 in D(Object)
Japanese
Musa (station name): swordsman Miyamoto Musashi standing on a rope bridge, strikes at a giant bat. No. 48 (should be 67) in the series Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidô Road (Kisokaidô rokujûkyû tsugi no uchi) The Musa station exists in two versions. This one is probably the later: the print shows less details, lacking distant hill and ink gradations and variations in the color degradations than the 1852 version.
In Collection
Sarah E. Thompson, Utagawa Kuniyoshi: The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido.
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