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Actor Ichimura Kamezô I as Kyô no Jirô


「京ノ次郎 市村亀蔵」(初代)
Torii Kiyonobu II (Japanese, active about 1725–1760)
Publisher: Sakaiya Kurobei
Japanese
Edo period
1761 (Hôreki 11), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (benizuri-e); ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 29.7 x 14.3 cm (11 11/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13245
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 0345, fig. 60
DescriptionPlay: Edo Murasaki Kongen Soga
Theater: Ichimura
江戸紫根元曾我(えどむらさきこんげんそが)
市村
Signed Torii Kiyonobu hitsu
鳥居清信筆
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.