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「江戸市川流」「壽」初代市川団十郎像「歌舞妓狂言組十八番」「壬辰 三月 市川七代目団十郎改海老蔵 実子 市川八代目海老蔵改団十郎」
Congratulations (Kotobuki) to the Ichikawa Family [crest]! History of the Ichikawa Line (Edo Ichikawa ryû), Portrait of Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô I, and List of the Eighteen Great Kabuki Plays (Kabuki kyôgen kumi Jûhachiban), in Honor of the Name Change of Ichikawa Danjûrô VII to Ebizô and His Son, the Former Ebizô, to Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII, in the Third Month of the Year of the Water Dragon (Mizunoe tatsu, sangatsu, Ichikawa Nanadaime Danjûrô aratame Ebizô, Jisshi Ichikawa Hachidaime Ebizô aratame Danjûrô))
「江戸市川流」「壽」初代市川団十郎像「歌舞妓狂言組十八番」「壬辰 三月 市川七代目団十郎改海老蔵 実子 市川八代目海老蔵改団十郎」
Torii Kiyomitsu II (Kiyomine) (Japanese, 1787–1868)
Publisher: Maruya Jinpachi (Marujin, Enjudô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Maruya Jinpachi (Marujin, Enjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1832 (Tenpô 3), 3rd month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Horizontal double ôban; 40.6 x 57.3 cm (16 x 22 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession Number00.1674
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
McKee, "Gifts of the 'Treasure Ship'," in Graphic Designer ... Robert Schaap (2013); Gifu-ken Hakubutsukan, Shichidaime Danjûrô to Kunisada, Kuniyoshi (2001), #33; Chiba Museum, Edo no surimono (1997), #40; Bowie et al, Art of the Surimono (1979), #57
DescriptionThe portrait of Danjûrô I is copied from the picturebook Fûryû yomo byôbu, 1700, by Torii Kiyonobu I (see MFA 2000.1255).
MFA impressions: 00.1674 (intact), 11.27795 (text sections only)
A related design: 00.1682, 11.38841
MFA impressions: 00.1674 (intact), 11.27795 (text sections only)
A related design: 00.1682, 11.38841
Signed
Godaime [i.e. fifth-generation head of the Torii school] Torii Kiyomitsu hitsu
五代目清満筆
五代目清満筆
Marks
Artist's seal: Kiyomitsu
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)