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The First Month (Mutsuki) and the Second Month (Kisaragi): Actors Nakamura Utaemon IV as a Lady Gathering Young Shoots (Wakana tsumi) and Ichimura Kakitsu (Uzaemon XII) as a Visitor to a Shrine at New Year (Haru ga môde), from the series Twelve Months (Jûni tsuki no uchi)


「十二月ノ内 睦月 衣更着」「わか菜つみ 中村歌右衛門」(四代目)、「春か詣 市村家橘」(十二代目市村羽左衛門)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1840 (Tenpô 11), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 26 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16360
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay (shosa, finale of Part 2): Hana Kyôdai Nenjûgyôji
Sections: Matsu-no-hana-tsuki Matsuo no Wakanatsumi, Umemi-tsuki Jorô no Kasuga Môde
Play (main feature): Shimekazari Otakara Soga
Theater: Ichimura
花☆十二月所作(はなきょうだいねんじゅうぎょうじ) 長唄
松花月松尾の若菜摘、梅見月女臈の春日詣(まつのはなつきまつおのわかなつみ、うめみつきじょろうのかすがもうで)
七五三翫宝曽我(しめかざりおたからそが)
市村、二番目大切
1840、天保11、03・21
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.