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Actor Iwai Hanshirô IV as the Courtesan (Keisei) Funabashi


四代目岩井半四郎のけいせい船橋
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1791 (Kansei 3), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 33.1 x 15.1 cm (13 1/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13463
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay (kaomise): Mieikô Nori no Hachinoki
Theater: Kawarazaki
Signed Shunshô ga
春章画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
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.