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Actors Ôtani Ryûzaemon I and Ichikawa Danjûrô II in a Shibaraku Scene


初代大谷竜左衛門、二代目市川海老蔵の暫
Torii Kiyomasu II (Japanese, 1706–1763)
Publisher: Igaya Kan'emon (Bunkidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1730 (Kyôhô 15)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions Hosoban; 31.7 x 16.7 cm (12 1/2 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13271
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 0535
Signed Torii Kiyomasu hitsu
鳥居清倍筆
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.