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Actors Matsushima Hyôtarô as the Courtesan Senzai and Nakamura Ujûrô and Nanboku Magotarô as Samurai


けいせい千載 「松島兵太郎」、「宇十郎」(中村宇十郎)、「なんほく」(南北孫太郎)
Okumura Toshinobu (Japanese, active about 1717–1750)
Publisher: Nakajimaya Izaemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1724 (Kyôhô 9), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (beni-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and metallic powder
Dimensions Hosoban; 30.1 x 15.8 cm (11 7/8 x 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13225
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 1936; Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #116; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 36
DescriptionPlay (kaomise): Bankoku Taiheiki
Theater: Ichimura
万国太平記(ばんこくたいへいき)
市村
Signed Yamato gakô Okumura Toshinobu hitsu
大和画工 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.