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Kashiwa Pass (Kashiwa-ga-tôge): Actor Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Ômi no Kotôta, from the series Eight Views of the Soga Brothers Story, with the Actors' Own Calligraphy (Soga hakkei jihitsu kagami)


「曽我八景自筆鏡」「柏ヶ峠」「近江小藤太」 四代目市川小団次
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Other artist: Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu) (Japanese, 1826–1869)
Publisher: Uoya Eikichi (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Yokokawa Takejirô (Hori Take)
Japanese
Edo period
1861 (Man'en 2/Bunkyû 1), 12th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35 x 24.2 cm (13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22418
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Kiô Toyokuni hitsu, in toshidama cartouche; Hiroshige
喜翁 豊国筆、広重(ヒロ印)
Marks Censor's seal: Chicken 12 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Take

改印:酉十二改
彫師:彫竹
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.