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Actor Nakamura Utaemon III (Shikan) as Abe no Yasuna


中村歌右衛門の安部保名
Gigadô Ashiyuki (Japanese, active about 1814–1835)
Publisher: Shôhonya Seishichi (Honsei) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1824 (Bunsei 7), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.3 x 26.4 cm (14 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26580
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 93; Gerstle 2005, #226; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 1 (1997), #223; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 3, British Museum III (1987), fig. 83
DescriptionPlay: Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami
Theater: Kitahorie
芦屋道満大内鑑(あしやどうまんおおうちかがみ)
北堀江
Signed Ashiyuki ga
芦ゆき画
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.