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A New Play for the New Year Season (Ni no kawari shin kyôgen): Actor Kanô (Arashi) Hinasuke I (as Higaki no Odai)


ひがきのお大 「二ノ替り新狂言 叶(嵐)雛助」
Ryûkôsai Jokei (Japanese, active 1770s–1809)
Publisher: Shioya Rinbei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1793 (Kansei 5), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hosoban; 31.1 x 13.5 cm (12 1/4 x 5 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19263
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Gerstle & Yano, Ryûkôsai zuroku (2009), #10a; Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 87; Gerstle 2005, #24; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in Western Collections, Beres Collection (1991), pl. 104
DescriptionPlay: Shôbukawa Yakko Dôjô-ji
勝武革奴道成礎(しょうぶかわやっこどうじょうじ)
Signed Unsigned
無款
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.