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Actors Nakamura Kumetarô I as Matsuura Sayo no Hime and Ichimura Kamezô I as Kume no Sennin


松浦さよの姫 「中村粂太郎」(初代)、粂仙人 「市村亀蔵」(初代)
Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Publisher: Okumuraya
Japanese
Edo period
1754 (Hôreki 4), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (benizuri-e); ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ô-ôban; 42.9 x 31.8 cm (16 7/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19666
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 1784; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 125; Ukiyo-e taisei 3 (1931), #98
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.19666, 21.5751

Play: Keisei Asakusa no Kane
Theater: Ichimura
傾城浅草鐘(けいせいあさくさのかね)
市村
Signed Hôgetsudô Okumura Bunkaku Masanobu ga
方月堂奥村文角政信画
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.