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Actors Onoe Matsusuke I and Arashi Sangorô II as Takebe Genzô (?)


初代尾上松助、二代目嵐三五郎
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1772 (Meiwa 9/An'ei 1), 1st month (?)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 30.8 x 13.6 cm (12 1/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18598
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 1 (1960), #842
DescriptionPlay: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (?)
Theater: Ichimura
菅原伝授手習鑑(すがわらでんじゅてならいかがみ)
市村
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.