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Ryôgoku: Actor Nakamura Shikan IV, from the series The Pride of Edo (Edo jiman no uchi)


「江戸自慢之内 両国」 四代目中村芝翫
Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835–1900)
Publisher: Masudaya Ginjirô (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Katada Chôjirô (Hori Chô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1867 (Keiô 3), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 × 25 cm (14 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21913
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 007-1426
Signed Kunichika hitsu
国周筆
Marks Censor's seal: Hare 6 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Horikô Chôjirô
改印:卯六改
彫師:ホリ工長治郎
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.