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Actors Nakamura Shikan IV as Kongômaru Sonosuke (R), Sawamura Tanosuke III as Kakezara (C), and Ichikawa Kuzô III as Wakasa Shinkichi (L)


「金剛丸素之助 中村芝翫」(四代目)  「かけ皿 沢村田之助」(三代目)  「若徒真吉 市川九蔵」(三代目)
Utagawa Kunisada II (Kunimasa III, Toyokuni IV) (Japanese, 1823–1880)
Publisher: Iseya Kanekichi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.7 × 75.8 cm (14 7/16 × 29 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.986a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 100-6488 (R), 100-6489 (C), 100-6490 (L)
DescriptionPlay: Ichibannori Meiki no Sashimono
Theater: Morita
魁駒松梅桜曙☆(いちばんのりめいきのさしもの)
守田
Signed Kunisada ga (on each sheet)
国貞画
Marks Censor's seal: Ox 2 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:丑二改
彫師:なし
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)