Actors Sodesaki Kotarô and Nakamura Takesaburô I as a Couple Playing Sugoroku – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Actors Sodesaki Kotarô and Nakamura Takesaburô I as a Couple Playing Sugoroku

Actors Sodesaki Kotarô and Nakamura Takesaburô I as a Couple Playing Sugoroku

袖崎小太郎と初代中村竹三郎の双六遊びの男女

Torii Kiyomasu I (Japanese, active about 1696–1716)
Publisher: Igaya Kan'emon (Bunkidô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1710 (Hôei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (tan-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color

Dimensions Vertical ô-ôban; 52.1 x 31.9 cm (20 1/2 x 12 9/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number06.2561

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 0397; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 5; TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 1 (1960), #60

Signed Torii Kiyomasu zu
鳥居清倍図

Provenance1900, purchased by Denman Waldo Ross from Yamanaka & Co., New York; 1906 gift of Denman Waldo Ross, Cambridge, Massachusetts to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)