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Actor Ichikawa Komazô II as Yukihira


二代目市川高麗蔵の中納言行平
Ippitsusai Bunchô (Japanese, active about 1765–1792)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1771 (Meiwa 8), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 30.7 x 13.5 cm (12 1/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18488
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Bunchô list, #33; Ukiyo-e shûka 11 (1979), pl. 183
DescriptionPlay: Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji
Theater: Nakamura
倭花小野五文字(くにのはなおののいつもじ)
中村
Signed Ippitsusai Bunchô ga
一筆齊文調画
Marks Artist's seal: Mori uji
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.