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Actor Iwai Hanshirô V as the Female Pilgrim Mikumano no Okishi


女巡礼三熊野のお岸 「岩井半四郎」(五代目)
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 24.6 cm (14 3/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22504
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPlay: Kiku-zumô Mikurai Sadame
Theater: Nakamura
菊相撲爵定(きくずもうみくらいさだめ)
中村
文化01 (1804)
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.