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Actor Nakamura Nakazō I as Kudō Suketsune (?)


初代中村仲蔵
Katsukawa Shunshō (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1775 (An'ei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 31.5 x 14.5 cm (12 3/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18814
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Iromoyō Aoyagi Soga
Theater: Nakamura
色模様青柳曽我(いろもようあおやぎそが)
中村

Costume similar to that on fan print 21.4296.
Signed Shunshō 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.