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Actor Arashi Kichisaburô II (Rikan) as Okitsu Jinzô


「沖津仁三 嵐吉三郎」(二代目)
Nagakuni (Japanese, active 1814–1820s)
Publisher: Wataya Kihei (Wataki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1814 (Bunka 11), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper with stenciled color
Dimensions Hosoban; 34.5 x 15.5 cm (13 9/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26558
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 87; another print for the same performance: Gerstle 2005, #130
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Tsukushi no Tsumagoto
Theater: Kado
けいせい筑紫☆(けいせいつくしのつまごと)

Signed Nagahide monjin Shûei ga (Shûei, pupil of Nagahide)
長秀門人秀栄画
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.