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Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô VII as Daruma, from a tetraptych (yonmaitsuzuki)


「市川団十郎」(七代目)
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1814 (Bunka 11), 2nd month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 36.1 x 25 cm (14 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25375
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné The other 3 prints in the set: Waseda db 101-6834, 101-6835, 101-6836
DescriptionFrom a quick-change dance in which Danjûrô played 4 parts: Daruma, a Courtesan, Bosatsumono, and Tametomo.

Play: Hetazaiku Nido no Harimaze
Theater: Morita
拙業再張交(へたざいくにどのはりまぜ)
森田
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.