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Actor Arashi Ryûzô II as Kyûsaku


二代目嵐竜蔵の久作
Katsukawa Shunkô (Japanese, 1743–1812)
Japanese
Edo period
1788 (Tenmei 8), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 32.2 x 14.4 cm (12 11/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18310
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taisei 8 (1931), #154; Yamamura & Machida, Shibai nishiki-e shûsei (1919), #177 (two left sheets of triptych)
DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete triptych.

MFA impressions: 11.18310 (left sheet only), 11.18433-5 (complete triptych)

Play (second feature): Osome Hisamatsu Ukina no Hatsugasumi
Play (main feature): Keisei Natori Soga
Theater: Kiri
おそめ久松浮名の初霞(おそめひさまつうきなのはつがすみ)
けいせい優曽我(けいせいなとりそが)

Signed Shunkô ga
春好画
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.