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Actor Kawarazaki Gonjurô I as Yokozô, Actually (Jitsu wa) Yamamoto Kansuke


横蔵実ハ山本勘助 初代河原崎権十郎
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (Kinshôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.1 × 25.4 cm (14 5/8 × 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.16436
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné TML db M144-014-01(01) , (02), (03) (complete triptych)
DescriptionRight sheet of incomplete triptych; 11.16437 is the left sheet, with the identification of actors and roles.

Play: Ono no Tôfû Aoyagi Suzuri
Theater: Nakamura
小野道風青柳硯(おののとうふうあおやぎすずり)
中村
1863、文久03
Signed (this sheet unsigned)
無款
Marks Censor's seal: Boar 7 aratame
No blockcutter's mark
改印:亥七改
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.