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Actors Sawamura Sôjûrô I as Kiyomi Muneuchi and Sanjô Kantarô II as Fuseya


「清見宗内 沢村宗十郎」(初代)、「ふせや 三条勘太郎」(二代) 「第壱 たいめんすけなり」
Okumura Toshinobu (Japanese, active about 1717–1750)
Publisher: Okumuraya
Japanese
Edo period
1729 (Kyôhô 14)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions Hosoban; 30.9 x 15.6 cm (12 3/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13221
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 1959; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 35
DescriptionTheater: Nakamura
Signed Nihon gakô Okumura Toshinobu hitsu
日本画工 奥村利信筆
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.