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Actors Bandô Hikosaburô V as Sakaya Mataroku and Nakamura Nakazô III as Shikabue no Shichizô, from the series Thirty-six Selected Poems (Sanjûroku kusen)


「三拾六句撰」「酒屋又六」五代目坂東彦三郎、「鹿笛の七蔵」三代目中村仲蔵
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Kogaya Katsugorô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Ôta Komakichi (Hori Koma, Hori Tashichi) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1865 (Genji 2/Keiô 1), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.9 × 25 cm (14 1/2 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21881
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 007-2812
Signed Kunichika ga
国周画
Marks Censor's seal: Ox 2 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Ôta Tashichi
改印:丑二改
彫師:彫太田多七
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.