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Actor Ichikawa Benzô I as Kumenosuke, Actually Tsunewaka


初代市川弁蔵の粂之助実ハ経若
Ippitsusai Bunchô (Japanese, active about 1765–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1770 (Meiwa 7), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 30.9 x 13.9 cm (12 3/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18535
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 030-0027
DescriptionPlay: Kagami-ga-ike Omokage Soga
Theater: Nakamura
鏡池俤曽我(かがみがいけおもかげそが)
中村

「此度松若にて.二の宮に惚らるゝ所よし.誠はつね若なれ共.久米之介と名をかへさいかやへ来り.お梅とのぬれ事.」(役者美開帳)
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.