Shaving the Head with a Ladder (Gohô hashigo-zuri): Actors Bandô Mitsugorô VI as Daikoku and Nakamura Fukusuke I as Fukuroku, from the series Dance of the Ôtsu-e Figures (Ôtsu-e shosa no uchi) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Shaving the Head with a Ladder (Gohô hashigo-zuri): Actors Bandô Mitsugorô VI as Daikoku and Nakamura Fukusuke I as Fukuroku, from the series Dance of the Ôtsu-e Figures (Ôtsu-e shosa no uchi)

Shaving the Head with a Ladder (Gohô hashigo-zuri): Actors Bandô Mitsugorô VI as Daikoku and Nakamura Fukusuke I as Fukuroku, from the series Dance of the Ôtsu-e Figures (Ôtsu-e shosa no uchi)

「大津絵所作ノ内」「ごほふはしごずり」「大こく」六代目坂東三津五郎、「ふくろく」初代中村福助

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Hayashiya Shôgorô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1857 (Ansei 4), 10th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 25 cm (14 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession Number11.21893

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)

Marks Censor's seals: aratame, Snake 10
No blockcutter's mark
改印：改、巳十
彫師：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.