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(Newly Published) Eleven Continuous Acts of Chûshingura (Shinpan Chûshingura jûichidan tsuzuki), Acts 3 and 4 (Sandanme, Yodanme): Actors Sawamura Tôzô I as Yamana Jirozaemon, Ichikawa Omezô I as both Ishidô Umanojô and Hayano Kanpei, Ichikawa Aragorô I as En'ya Hangan, Segawa Kikusaburô II as Okaru, and Arashi Otohachi II as Sagisaka Bannai


新板 忠臣蔵十一段続 「三段目」 「四段目」 初代沢村藤蔵の山名次郎左衛門、初代市川男女蔵の石堂右馬之丞・早野勘平、初代市川荒五郎の塩冶判官、二代目瀬川菊三郎のおかる、二代目嵐音八の鷺坂伴内
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudō) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1801 (Kansei 13/Kyôwa 1), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban, center right sheet of pentaptych; 36.8 x 25.1 cm (14 1/2 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21484
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 100-1040 (R), 100-1041 (C), 100-1042 (CL), 100-1043 (L); Fujisawa, Kabuki Edo hyakkei (2022), pp. 98-9; Kuwana City Mus., Shodai Utagawa Toyokuni yakusha-e ten (2002), #30 (complete); Akô Mus., Nishiki-e ni miru Chûshingura (1998), #4 (complete)
DescriptionPentaptych: 11.21481-5 (no virtual record; each sheet catalogued separately)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
Theater: Nakamura
仮名手本忠臣蔵(かなでほんちゅうしんぐら)
中村
Signed (this sheet unsigned)
無款
Marks No censor's seal
Publisher's mark on left sheet only
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.