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Actor Nakayama Tomisaburô I as Sanuki Rokurô's Younger Sister Naminoto (?)


初代中山富三郎の讃岐六郎妹浪の戸ヵ
Utagawa Kunimasa (Japanese, 1773–1810)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1796 (Kansei 8), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 32.4 x 22.8 cm (12 3/4 x 9 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.24969
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 9 (1981), list #1.040
DescriptionPlay: Itsukushima Yuki no Kaomise
Theater: Kawarazaki
厳島雪ノ顔見世(鏡)
河原崎
Signed Kunimasa ga
国政画
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.