Large Room (Ôbeya): Actors (from right) Ichikawa Kuzô III, Seki Sanjûrô III, and Kawarazaki Gonjûrô I, from the series Glimpses of Actors Backstage (Haiyû gakuya no sugatami)

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Large Room (Ôbeya): Actors (from right) Ichikawa Kuzô III, Seki Sanjûrô III, and Kawarazaki Gonjûrô I, from the series Glimpses of Actors Backstage (Haiyû gakuya no sugatami)

「俳優楽屋の姿見　大部屋」　「市川九蔵」（三代目）、「関三十郎」（三代目）、「河原崎権十郎」（初代）

Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) (Japanese, 1823–1880)
Publisher: Enshûya Hikobei (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 Number00.757

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Tôbu bijutsukan, Edo no hana kabuki-e ten (1999), #135H; Edo-Tokyo Museum, Edo kabuki (1995), #5-47

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

Marks Censor's seal: Rat 1 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Kiyo (Hori Sei ?)
改印：子正改
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)