/internal/media/dispatcher/1108317/resize%25253Aformat%25253Dthumbnail;jsessionid=6DB243CB4C59EFA59A1703E030AC7E66Title page, from the series Actors for the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Yakusha mitate Tôkaidô gojûsan eki), also called Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi)1852 (Kaei 5)Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)Yokokawa Takejirō (Hori Take)Ôumiya KyûtarôVertical ôban; 34 x 24 cm (13 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paperWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection11.29525.10MFA impressions: 11.29525.1, 11.43297, 59.1147.2
This not-for-sale sheet (possibly given away as a bonus gift when prints were purchased) identifies the actors (some deceased) shown in the 55 sheets of the original series, before the extra designs were added.
The impression illustrated in Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), has alternating shades of red and pink as background for the actors' names, but all three MFA impressions have color only in the border.
「東海道五十三次之内」シリーズの目録。Prints34.000000000021914501