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Actor Onoe Eizaburô I as Soga no Gorô, cut from the sheet Newly Published Collection of Onoe Eizaburô (Shinpan Onoe Eizaburô tsukushi), one of a series showing actors in six roles each


新版 尾上栄三郎つくし 初代尾上栄三郎の曽我五郎
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Japanese
Edo period
1808 (Bunka 5), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 11.9 x 11.4 cm (4 11/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25285
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hiraki Ukiyo-e Foundation, The Ôjaku Collection (2022), #94 (intact sheet)
DescriptionFrom the same sheet: 11.43826 (TR), 11.43825 (TL), 11.25285 (CR), 11.43827 (CL), (BR not in MFA), 11.25306 (BL)
Title, signature, and publisher's mark in margins of intact print.

Play: Tsuki no Ume Yawaragi Soga
Theater: Ichimura
Opening date: 1808 (Bunka 5), 1st month
月梅和曽我(つきのうめやわらぎそが)
市村
文化05 (1808)・01・13
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.