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Actor Ichikawa Yaozô III as a Bandit, Actually Mita no Jirô Tomotsuna


三代目市川八百蔵の山賤(実は蓑田次郎)
Utagawa Kunimasa (Japanese, 1773–1810)
Publisher: Yama-Zen
Japanese
Edo period
1796 (Kansei 8), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.7 x 24.7 cm (14 7/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16211
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #91; Chiba Mus., Ukiyo-e bi no kiwami (Baur coll. exh. cat., 2001), #85; Ukiyo-e shûka 9 (1981), list #1.030
DescriptionPlay: Seiwa Nidai Ôyose Genji
Theater: Miyako
清和二代遨源氏(せいわにだいおおよせげんじ)

Signed Kunimasa ga
国政画
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.