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Actors Segawa Kikunojô II as Oisô no Tora and Ichikawa Yaozô II as Soga no Jûrô


二代目瀬川菊之丞の大磯のとら、二代目市川八百蔵の曽我十郎
Ippitsusai Bunchô (Japanese, active about 1765–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1769 (Meiwa 6), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 30.5 x 13.9 cm (12 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18508
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taisei 5 (1930), #253
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.18508, 34.332

Play: Soga Moyô Aigo no Wakamatsu
Theater: Nakamura
曽我(衣+我)愛護若松(そがもようあいごのわかまつ)
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.