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三俳優隅田川船遊び
Three Actors at a Boating Party on the Sumida River
三俳優隅田川船遊び
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Cut from two sheets of a vertical ôban triptych; 36.4 × 38.9 cm (14 5/16 × 15 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20245
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #46 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #120, pls. 57-9; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #889, pl. LXXVI
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.14001-3, 11.20245 (fragments of two sheets), 21.7497-9
The actors are Ichikawa Komazô II, Iwai Hanshirô V, and Sawamura Sôjûrô III. The crane crest on the lanterns may indicate that the pubilsher was Tsuruya.
The actors are Ichikawa Komazô II, Iwai Hanshirô V, and Sawamura Sôjûrô III. The crane crest on the lanterns may indicate that the pubilsher was Tsuruya.
Signed
Kiyonaga ga
清長画
清長画
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.
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.