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Actors Onoe Tamizô II as Sodayû and Nakamura Shikan IV as Kongôjin Gennosuke, from the series Thirty-six Selected Poems (Sanjûroku kusen)


「三拾六句撰」「素太夫」二代目尾上多見蔵、「金剛神源之助」四代目中村芝翫
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), 4th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.8 × 25.2 cm (14 1/2 × 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21882
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 007-2906
Signed Kunichika ga
国周画
Marks Censor's seal: Ox 4 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Ôta Tashichi
改印:丑四改
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.