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Felicitous Actors' Tallies (Kotobuki yakusha fukubiki); Season-opening Plays at the Major Theaters in the Year of the Dragon (Kanoe tatsu no toshi ôshibai kaomise butai-iri kyôgen zukushi); R to L, by month: 1, Segawa Rokô (Segawa Kikunojô II); 2, Nakamura Gyoraku (Nakamura Sukegorô I); 3, Hanakawa Ichinojô; 5, Ichikawa Sanjô (=Sanshô, Ichikawa Danjûrô IV); 4, Ichimura Shichijûrô; 8, Bandô Heikyû (Bandô Sanpachi I); 6, Sanogawa Seifu (Sanogawa Ichimatsu I); 9, Onoe Baikô (Onoe Kikugorô I); 7, Anegawa Daikichi; 11, Ichimura Kakitsu (Ichimura Kamezô I); 10, Bandô Shinsui (Bandô Hikosaburô II); 12, Matsumoto Goryû (Matsumoto Kôshirô III)


「かのえたつの年 大芝居かほみせ舞台入狂言尽」 「寿役者福引」 「正月」「瀬川路考(ろかう)」(二代目瀬川菊之丞)、「二月」「中村魚楽(ぎよらく)」(初代中村助五郎)、「三月」「花川市之丞」、「五月」「市川三升(さんぜう)」(四代目市川団十郎)、「四月」「市村七十郎」、「八月」「坂東平久(へいきう)」(初代坂東三八)、「六月」「佐野川盛府(せいふ)」(初代佐野川市松)、「九月」「尾上梅幸」(初代尾上菊五郎)、「七月」「姉川大吉」、「十一月」「市村家橘」(初代市村亀蔵)、「十月」「坂東薪水」(二代目坂東彦三郎)、「十二月」「松本五柳」(三代目松本幸四郎)
Torii Kiyomitsu I (Japanese, 1735–1785)
Publisher: Maruya Kohei (Hôsendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1759 (Hôreki 9), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (benizuri-e); ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ô-ôban; 30 x 43.4 cm (11 13/16 x 17 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19630
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 2431
Signed Torii Kiyomitsu ga
鳥居清満画
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.