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Actors Iwai Hanshirô IV as the Courtesan (Keisei) Yamabuki of Kagamiyama and Segawa Kikunojô III as Tomoe Gozen


四代目岩井半四郎のかゞみ鏡山の傾城山吹、三代目瀬川菊之丞の巴御前
Katsukawa Shunkô (Japanese, 1743–1812)
Japanese
Edo period
1788 (Tenmei 8), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical aiban; 31.2 x 21.9 cm (12 5/16 x 8 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14966
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taisei 8 (1931), #194
DescriptionPlay (kaomise): Genji Saikô Kogane no Tachibana
Theater: Ichimura
源氏再興黄金橘(げんじさいこうこがねのたちばな)
市村
Signed Shunkô ga
春好画
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.