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Actor Ichikawa Yaozô II as the Fox Sakon (Sakon-gitsune)


二代目市川八百蔵の左近狐
Ippitsusai Bunchô (Japanese, active about 1765–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1770 (Meiwa 7), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 32.1 x 14.7 cm (12 5/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18499
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Riccar Art Museum, Ippitsusai Bunchô ten (1968), #36
DescriptionPlay: Nue no Mori Ichiyô no Mato
Theater: Nakamura
鵺森一陽的(ぬえのもりいちようのまと)
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.