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Actor Nakamura Utaemon III Entering the Theater (Nakamura Utaemon gakuya iri no zu)


「中村歌右衛門 楽屋入の図」
Jukôdô Yoshikuni (Japanese, active 1804–1843)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)
Publisher: Ariwaradô Chûbei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1819 (Bunsei 2), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36 x 25 cm (14 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22632
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 89; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #309; Keyes 1973, #365 (no photo)
DescriptionPossibly from the same series: 11.22632, by Yoshikuni, and 11.36194, by Shibakuni; also an optional diptych by Yoshikuni, 11.36240 (R) and 11.36236 (L).
Signed Jukôdô Yoshikuni ga
寿好堂よし国画
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.