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Actors Sawamura Kunitarô II as Ushiwakamaru (R) and Arashi Kitsusaburô II as Kumasaka Chôhan (L)


二代目沢村国太郎の源の牛若丸と二代目嵐橘三郎の熊坂長範
Gigadô Ashiyuki (Japanese, active about 1814–1835)
Japanese
Edo period
1827 (Bunsei 10), 9th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 26 x 38.7 cm (10 1/4 x 15 1/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26577
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 96; Yonemura et al., Masterful Illusions (2002), #55; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #271
DescriptionPlay: Kachidoki Mibae Genji
Theater: Naka
勝鬨莩源氏

Signed Gigadô Ashiyuki
戯画堂芦ゆき
Marks Artist's seal: Ashiyuki
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.