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Actor Mimasu Daigorô IV as Shimada Heizaemon in Sakura Momiji Ômi Hakkei


「桜紅葉近江八景」 「島田平左衛門」 四代目三枡大五郎
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 8th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25 x 16.5 cm (9 13/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20666
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 110; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #566
DescriptionRight sheet of incomplete triptych.

MFA impressions: 11.20666 (R sheet only), 11.37882a-c (complete triptych)

Play: Sakura Momiji Ômi Hakkei
Theater: Kado
桜紅葉近江八景(さくらもみじおうみはっけい)

Signed Kunikazu
国員
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.