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Actor Nakamura Utaemon I as Matsui Gengo, Later Kumasaka’s Henchman Sanjô no Emon


初代中村歌右衛門の松井源五後ニ熊坂の手下三条の衛門
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1770 (Meiwa 7), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 30.7 x 13.7 cm (12 1/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18562
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, Harunobu and His Age (1964), #113 (no date)
DescriptionPlay: Kagami-ga-ike Omokage Soga
Theater: Nakamura
鏡池俤曽我(かがみいけおもかげそが)
中村
Signed Shunshô ga
春章画
Marks Artist's seal: Rin (in jar shape)
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.