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Daion-ji mae: (Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as) Shirai Gonpachi, from the series Thirty-six Fashionable Restaurants of the Eastern Capital (Tôto ryûkô sanjûroku kaiseki)


「東都流行三十六会席 大音寺前 白井権八」 八代目市川団十郎
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Other artist: Utagawa Yoshinobu (Japanese, active late 1840s–early 1860s)
Publisher: Mitaya Kihachi (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Nakamura Tôkichi (Hori Me-Tô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.4 x 25 cm (14 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22189
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 005-0847
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga (main image); Yoshinobu ga (background)
一勇斎国芳画、よしのぶ画
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Rat 11
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Me-Tô
改印:米良、渡邊、子十一
彫師:彫目藤
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.