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Actor Ichimura Takematsu III as Sôjirô


三代目市村竹松の宗次郎
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.7 × 24.5 cm (14 1/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16372
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 100-8670 (R), 100-8671 (C, not in MFA), 100-8672 (L)
DescriptionTwo parts of a triptych: 11.16372 (left sheet), 11.16440 (right sheet).

Play: Shin Kasane Chigusa no Hanayome
Theater: Ichimura
新累女千種花嫁(しんかさねちぐさのはなよめ)
市村
Signed Kunichika hitsu
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Hare 7 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:卯七改
彫師:なし
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.