Dressing Room of a Billboard Star (Kakidashi tachiyaku heya): Actors Nakamura Kamenojô I and Sawamura Tosshô II (seated), from the series Glimpses of Actors Backstage (Haiyû gakuya no sugatami)

「俳優楽屋の姿見　書出シ立役部屋」　「中村歌女之丞」（初代）　「沢村訥升」（二代目）

Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) (Japanese, 1823–1880)
Publisher: Enshûya Hikobei (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Hori Toyo (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1864 (Bunkyû 4/Genji 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 × 25 cm (14 9/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.754

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tôbu bijutsukan, Edo no hana kabuki-e ten (1999), #135F; Edo-Tokyo Museum, Edo kabuki (1995), #5-46

Signed Kunisada ga, in toshidama cartouche
国貞画(年玉枠)

Marks Censor's seal: Rat 1 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Toyo
改印：子正改
彫師：彫豊

ProvenanceBy 1900, William Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 05, 1900)