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Actor Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as Tobi-no-mono Omatsuri Sashichi


「鳶の者御祭佐七 十三代目市村羽左衛門 家橘」
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Ebisuya Shôshichi (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Shimizu Ryûzô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.1 x 25.5 cm (15 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15495
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), p. 166, #28; Shindo, Gototei Kunisada yakusha-e no sekai (1993), p. 122
Signed Nanajûhassai Toyokuni hitsu, in toshidama cartouche
七十八歳豊国筆(年玉枠)
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 2 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Ryûzô
改印:亥二改
彫師:彫工柳三
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.