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Actor Segawa Kikunojô II as Izumi Gozen's Nurse Reizen, Actually Shinrai's Daughter Ayaori-hime


二代目瀬川菊之丞の上るり御前のめのと冷泉実ハ信頼の息女綾織姫
Ippitsusai Bunchô (Japanese, active about 1765–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1768 (Meiwa 5), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 29 x 15.5 cm (11 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18506
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné A similar design: Waseda db 030-0013
DescriptionPlay (kaomise): Ima o Sakari Suehiro Genji
Theater: Nakamura
今於盛末広源氏(いまをさかりすえひろげんじ)
中村
Signed Ippitsusai Bunchô ga
一筆齊文調画
Marks Artist's seal: Mori uji
守氏
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.