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Actor Nakamura Utaemon III as Demura Shinbei


「出むら新兵衛 中村歌右衛門」(三代目)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Kawaguchiya Uhei (Fukusendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1818 (Bunka 15/Bunsei 1), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.5 x 26.4 cm (15 3/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15194
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Wasedsa db 101-1794; also 101-1792 (R) and 101-1793 (C), not in MFA
DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete triptych.

Play: Ise Heiji Hiiki no Kamikaze
Theater: Nakamura
伊勢平氏摂神風(いせへいじひいきのかみかぜ)
中村
1818、文政01、11・01
Signed Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画
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.