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「青楼仁和嘉 いね きん かよ れん 此様な縁未替ぬ色事」（こんなえにしかわらぬいろごと）
A Love Like This Will Never Change (Konna enishi kawaranu irogoto), performed by Ine, Kin, Kayo, and Ren, from the series The Niwaka Festival in the Yoshiwara (Seirô Niwaka)
「青楼仁和嘉 いね きん かよ れん 此様な縁未替ぬ色事」（こんなえにしかわらぬいろごと）
Kitagawa Utamaro II (Japanese, ?–1831?)
Japanese
Edo period
1808 (Bunka 5), 8th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 36.4 x 24 cm (14 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14290
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionThe title of the skit is that of a kabuki dance play first performed in the 11th month of 1806 at the Ichimura Theater in Edo.
Similar print by Utamaro I, with slightly different spelling for the skit title:
https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/results-big.php?f11[]=1&f85=%E9%9D%92%E6%A5%BC%E4%BB%81%E5%92%8C%E5%98%89&-format=resultsp.htm&-max=50&singleskip=98&enter=portal&lang=en&skip=50
Similar print by Utamaro I, with slightly different spelling for the skit title:
https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/results-big.php?f11[]=1&f85=%E9%9D%92%E6%A5%BC%E4%BB%81%E5%92%8C%E5%98%89&-format=resultsp.htm&-max=50&singleskip=98&enter=portal&lang=en&skip=50
Signed
Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
歌麿筆
Marks
Censor's seals: kiwame, Dragon 8
改印：極
改印：極
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.
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.