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Actors Matsumoto Kôshirô V and Bandô Mitsugorô III, Walking with Two Women


五代目松本幸四郎、三代目坂東三津五郎、二美人
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Yamatoya Jûbei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1807 (Bunka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.7 x 24.8 cm (14 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13782
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 001-0448
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.13502, 11.13782

Probably the right sheet of an incomplete triptych, with 11.13783 as the left sheet.

Identification of publisher is not certain.
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:なし
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.