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Actor Jitsukawa Enzaburô I as Sasaki Tan'emon


「佐々木丹右衛門 実川延三郎」
Isshusai Kunikazu (Japanese, active about 1848–1868)
Japanese
Edo period
1857 (Ansei 4), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25 x 17.9 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20667
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 109; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 4 (2003), #559
DescriptionPlay: Igagoe Norikake Gappa
Theater: Naka
伊賀越乗掛合羽(いがごえのりかけかっぱ)

Signed Kunikazu
国員
Marks Artist's seal: Kunikazu
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.