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DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012

Actor Segawa Kikunojô III as Yasukata


三代目瀬川菊之丞の安方
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
1782 (Tenmei 2), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; about 33 × 15.2 cm (13 × 6 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.18925
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Fujisawa, Kabuki Edo hyakkei (2022), p. 41; Clark et al., The Actor's Image (1994), #497
DescriptionRight sheet of incomplete diptych.

MFA impressions: 11.18819VR (11.18819, 11.18924), *11.18925 (right sheet only; deaccessioned in 2012)

Play (jôruri): Mutsumashitsuki Koi no Tetori (Opportunism in Love in the First Month of the Year)
Play (kaomise): Godai Genji Mitsugi no Furisode
Theater: Nakamura
睦月恋手取(むつましつきこひのてとり)
五代源氏貢振袖(ごだいげんじみつぎのふりそで)
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.