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Kanaya: Actor Onoe Kikugorô III as the Ghost of the Shinzô Matsuyama, from the series Fifty-three Scenes with Large Props (Ôdôgu gojûsan dan) (parody of Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô)


「新造松山の霊 尾上菊五郎」(三代目)「かなや」「大道具五十三段」
Utagawa Sadakage I (Japanese, active about 1818–1844)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1827 (Bunsei 10), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.4 x 25 cm (14 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16187
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Hitoritabi Gojûsan Tsugi
Theater: Kawarazaki
独道中五十三駅(ひとりたびごじゅうさんつぎ)
河原崎
Signed Gokotei Sadakage ga
五湖亭貞景画
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.