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「東海道五拾三駅 名画之書分」「藤川」「赤坂」「弥次郎兵へ 市川団蔵」（六代目）、「喜多八 市川九蔵」（三代目）
Fujikawa: Hunters at Night, Akasaka: Actors Ichikawa Danzô VI as Yajirôbei and Ichikawa Kuzô III as Kitahachi, from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road Divided between Two Famous Artists (Tôkaidô gojûsan eki meiga no kakiwake)
「東海道五拾三駅 名画之書分」「藤川」「赤坂」「弥次郎兵へ 市川団蔵」（六代目）、「喜多八 市川九蔵」（三代目）
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Publisher: Ôtaya Takichi (Hori Takichi) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Ôta Komakichi (Hori Koma, Hori Tashichi) (Japanese)
Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Publisher: Ôtaya Takichi (Hori Takichi) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Ôta Komakichi (Hori Koma, Hori Tashichi) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1864 (Bunkyû 4/Genji 1)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 34 x 24.4 cm (13 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21412
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kaikan sanjû shûnen kinen Kawanabe Kyôsai kinen bijutsukan cat. (2008), p. 106, #0826; Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T68-19
Signed
Konomi ni makase nanajûkyû sai Toyokuni ga (Drawn at your pleasure by seventy-nine-year-old Toyokuni); Motome ni ôjite Seisei Kyôsai (Seisei Kyôsai by special request)
任好七十九歳豊国画
一世一代 任好七十九歳 豊国画(年玉印)、応需 惺々狂斎
任好七十九歳豊国画
一世一代 任好七十九歳 豊国画(年玉印)、応需 惺々狂斎
Marks
No censor's seal
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Ôta Tashichi
改印：なし
彫師：彫太田多七
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Ôta Tashichi
改印：なし
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.
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.