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Imado: (Actor Arashi Rikan III as) Yaegiri, from the series Thirty-six Fashionable Restaurants of the Eastern Capital (Tôto ryûkô sanjûroku kaiseki)


「東都流行三十六会席 今戸 八重桐」 三代目嵐璃寛
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 25 cm (14 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22188
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 005-0162 (actor not identified)
DescriptionPlay: Noborigoi Taki no Shirahata
Theater: Kawarazaki
Date of production: 1851 (Kaei 4), 11th month
升鯉滝白旗(のぼりごいたきのしらはた)
河原崎
嘉永04 (1851)・11・14
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Rat 11, shita-uri
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良、渡辺、子十一、シタ賣
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.