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Perspective Print of the Play Nanakusa Wakayagi Soga at the Ichimura Theater: Actors Bandô Hikosaburô I as Kudô Suketsune, Ichimura Manzô as Soga no Jûrô, and Onoe Kikugorô I as Soga no Gorô


浮絵 七種わかやぎ曾我 初代坂東彦三郎の工藤祐経、市村満蔵の曽我十郎、初代尾上菊五郎の曽我五郎
Tanaka Masunobu (Japanese, active about 1740–1750)
Publisher: Izutsuya Chûzaemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1744 (Kanpô 4/Enkyô 1), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions Horizontal ô-ôban; 31.5 x 44.8 cm (12 3/8 x 17 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19686
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 2206; Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #110; Kishi, Edo no enkin-hô (1994), fig. 26; Ukiyo-e shûka 1 (1983), pl. 45
DescriptionPlay: Nanakusa Wakayagi Soga
Theater: Ichimura
七種わかやぎ曾我(ななくさわかやぎそが)
市村
Signed Eshi Tanaka Masunobu hitsu
絵師田中益信筆
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.