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Unidentified Actor in Male Role


立役の役者
Shôkôsai (Japanese, active 1795–1809)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1798 (Kansei 10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock/stencil print (kappazuri); ink on paper, with stenciled color
Dimensions 20.2 x 9.3 cm (7 15/16 x 3 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26560
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 87
Signed (this picture unsigned)
無款
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.