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Actor Matsumoto Kôshirô V, cut from the sheet Newly Published Collection of Matsumoto Kôshirô (Shinpan Matsumoto Kôshirô tsukushi), one of a series showing actors in six roles each


五代目松本幸四郎
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1808 (Bunka 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 12 x 11.8 cm (4 3/4 x 4 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25283
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiraki Ukiyo-e Foundation, The Ôjaku Collection (2022), #95 (intact sheet); Ukiyo-e taisei 10 (1930), #166 (intact sheet)
DescriptionFrom the same sheet: 11.25283 (TR), (TL and CR not in MFA), 11.25292 (CL), 11.25282 (BR), 11.25293 (BL)
Title, signature, and publisher's mark in margins of intact print.
Signed (Toyokuni ga, in right margin of intact print)
(豊国画)
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.