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Actor Bandō Mitsugorō VI as Shindōzaemon's Daughter (Musume) Yūshide, from an untitled series


「新洞左衛門娘夕しで 坂東三津五郎 秀佳」 (六代目坂東三津五郎)
Utagawa Yoshitora (Japanese, active about 1836–1887)
Publisher: Ebisuya Shōshichi (Kinshōdō) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Shimizu Ryūzō (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1862 (Bunkyū 2), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ōban; 37.8 × 25.5 cm (14 7/8 × 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16278
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 012-0465; Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), p. 170, #3
Signed Yoshitora ga
芳虎画
Marks Censor's seal: Dog 10 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Horikō Ryūzō
改印:戌十改
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.