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Actor Bandô Jutarô I in His Great Role as Monkey Trainer Yojirô (Issei ichidai Sarumawashi Yojirô, Bandô Jutarô)


「一世一代 猿回し与次郎 坂東寿太郎」(初代)
Kaishuntei Sadayoshi (Japanese, active 1837–1853)
Japanese
Edo period
1840 (Tenpô 11), 3rd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.3 x 26.3 cm (15 1/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21995
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 104
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.21995, 11.22763, 11.22764

Play: Sarumawashi Kadode no Hitofushi
Theater: Naka
猿曳一諷(さるまわしかどでのひとふし)

Signed Utagawa Sadayoshi ga
歌川貞芳画
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.