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Actors Sawamura Sôjûrô III as Kusunoki Masatsura and Arashi Murajirô as Ben no Naishi


三代目沢村宗十郎の楠正行と嵐村次郎の弁の内侍
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1786 (Tenmei 6), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39 x 26.4 cm (15 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13915
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #90 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #105, pl. 181; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #807, pl. LXXXII
DescriptionPlay (jôruri): Sode Furu Yuki Yoshino Shûi
Play (main feature): Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha
Theater: Nakamura
袖振雪吉野拾遺(そでふるゆきよしのしゅうい)
雲井花吉野壮士(くもいのはなよしののわかむしゃ)
中村
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
InscriptionsPoem, above: Sawamura ya/ Azuma otoko ni/ Ôsaka no/ Murajirô jiro to/ nagame koso sure
Inscription: Kono tokoro Jôruri, Tomimoto Itsukidayû, Tomimoto Toyokidayû, Tomimoto Kagatayû; shamisen, Namisaki Tokuji, Sasaki Ichishirô.
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.