Dressing Room of the Top Star (Zagashira heya): Actors Bandô Hikosaburô V (in bathrobe) and Nakayama Genjûrô II, from the series Glimpses of Actors Backstage (Haiyû gakuya no sugatami)

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Dressing Room of the Top Star (Zagashira heya): Actors Bandô Hikosaburô V (in bathrobe) and Nakayama Genjûrô II, from the series Glimpses of Actors Backstage (Haiyû gakuya no sugatami)

「俳優楽屋の姿見　座頭部屋」「坂東彦三郎」（五代目）、「中山現十郎」（二代目）

Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) (Japanese, 1823–1880)
Publisher: Enshūya Hikobei (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1863 (Bunkyû 3), 10th month

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.2 × 25 cm (14 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession Number00.756

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tôbu bijutsukan, Edo no hana kabuki-e ten (1999), #135B; Edo-Tokyo Museum, Edo kabuki (1995), #5-42

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

Marks Censor's seal: Boar 10 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Sei
改印：亥十改
彫師：彫清

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)