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Actor Bandô Mitsugorô III as Watanabe ...tomo


「坂東三津五郎」(三代目)
Katsukawa Shuntei (Shôkôsai) (Japanese, 1770–1824)
Japanese
Edo period
1808 (Bunka 5), 5th month?

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical yotsugiri (quarter ôban); 17 x 11.8 cm (6 11/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25727
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPossibly from the same sheet: 11.25741 (TR), 11.25744 (TL), 11.25727 (BR), 11.25748 (BL)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon-zakura?
Theater: Nakamura
義経千本桜(よしつねせんぼんざくら)
中村

Signed Shuntei ga
春亭画
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
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.