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市村座の仮名手本忠臣蔵
Scene from the Play Kanadehon Chûshingura at the Ichimura Theater
市村座の仮名手本忠臣蔵
Attributed to: Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Japanese
Edo period
1749 (Kan'en 2), 5th month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print; ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions
Horizontal ô-ôban; 28.4 x 42.6 cm (11 3/16 x 16 3/4 in. )
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19627
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #67; Kishi, Edo no enkin-hô (1994), fig. 32
DescriptionThe blocks were reused in the following month for another play, with only the scene on stage altered; see 11.19665.
Signed
(signature probably in margin, cut off)
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.
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.