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Actor Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Mashiba Hisayoshi, from the series Lacquer Wine Cups with Portraits of Actors (Haiyû maki-e sakazuki)


「俳優蒔絵盃 四十八枚重ノ内」「真葉久吉 片岡仁左衛門」 (八代目)
Japanese
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 7th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.8 × 25.4 cm (14 1/2 × 10 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17356
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 500-1940
Signed Baichôrô Kunisada hitsu
梅蝶楼国貞筆
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.