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The First Month (Shôgatsu no zu): Actor Bandô Mitsugorô III, from the series The Five Festivals with Popular Actors in Private Life (Fûryû yakusha jigao gosekku)


「風流役者地顔五節句 正月之図」 三代目坂東三津五郎
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Shimizu (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1808 (Bunka 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.3 x 24.4 cm (13 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13725
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 001-1173
Signed Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga
一陽斎豊国画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.