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Actor Onoe Kikugorô I as Tonase


初代尾上菊五郎のとなせ
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1780 (An'ei 9), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 30.6 x 14.6 cm (12 1/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18746
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano et al., Chûshingura VII (2014), list #1-56, photo p. 29 (complete diptych); Clark et al., The Actor's Image (1994), #444
DescriptionRight sheet of incomplete diptych or triptych.

Play: Chûshin Nagori no Kura
Theater: Nakamura
忠臣名残蔵(ちゅうしんなごりのくら)
中村
Signed Shunshô ga
春章画
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.