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Actor Iwai Hanshirô V as the Girl (Musume) Sonohana


「娘その花 岩井半四郎」(五代目)
Jukôdô Yoshikuni (Japanese, active 1804–1843)
Publisher: Ariwaradô Chûbei (Japanese)
Publisher: Toshikuraya Shinbei (Toshin) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1821 (Bunsei 4), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban, left sheet of diptych; 35.8 x 24.8 cm (14 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22633
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 90; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #312
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Sato no Shimadai
Theater: Naka
けいせい廓島台(けいせいさとのしまだい)

Signed Yoshikuni ga
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.