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Koichi of the Kyôya as the Echigo Lion (Echigo jishi) from Utaemons's Dance of Seven Changes (Utaemon nanabake), from the series Gion Festival Costume Parade (Gion mikoshi harai, nerimono sugata)


「祇園神輿洗ねりもの姿(ぎおんねりものあらいねりものすがた) 歌右衛門七化(うたえもんななばけ) 越後獅子(えちごじし) 京や小市(こいち)」
Urakusai Nagahide (Japanese, active about 1805–1848)
Publisher: Yamasa (Japanese)
Publisher: Miyahisa
Japanese
Edo period
1813 (Bunka 10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper, with stenciled color
Dimensions Hosoban; 33.1 x 15.7 cm (13 1/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.20678
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 123; Ujlaki and Nakade, "Gion nerimono prints revisited: The list," Andon 75 (2003), GN 1813-13 (no photo)
Description京の祇園祭の行事の一つで、芸妓たちが仮装する練物(ねりもの)を描いたシリーズ。当時歌舞伎で三代中村歌右衛門(なかむらうたえもん)が演じて評判をとっていた七変化(しちへんげ)のうち、越後獅子に扮した京屋の芸妓小市。 -- 田辺 昌子K
Signed Nagahide ga
長秀画
Marks Publishers' marks: Yamasa han, Miyahisa han
画家の印章: なし
版元: 山佐 宮久
改印: なし
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.