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Actor Sawamura Gennosuke I as Ume no Yoshibei


「梅のよし兵衛 沢村源之助」(初代)
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
1807 (Bunka 4), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 25.9 cm (15 1/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17578
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Hokusai (2013), #20; Lane, Hokusai: Life and Work (1989), list #104
Signed Hokusai ga
北斎画
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, Hare 3
改印:極、卯
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.