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Actor Iwai Hanshirô IV as the Wet Nurse Shigenoi


四代目岩井半四郎の乳人重の井
Tôshûsai Sharaku (Japanese, active 1794–1795)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1794 (Kansei 6), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink, color, and mica on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 24.9 cm (15 1/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14670
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné TNM, Sharaku (2011), #67; MFA, Golden Age (2010), #98; Dai Sharaku ten (1995), #21; Ukiyo-e shûka 11 (1979), list #21; Henderson & Ledoux 14
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.14669, 11.14670, 21.7243

Play: Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna
Theater: Kawarazaki
恋女房染分手綱(こいにょうぼうそめわけたづな)
河原崎
Signed Tôshûsai Sharaku ga
東洲斎写楽画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
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.