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Actor Arashi Kitsusaburô II as Nagoya Sanza


二代目嵐橘三郎の名古や山三
Gigadô Ashiyuki (Japanese, active about 1814–1835)
Japanese
Edo period
1823 (Bunsei 6), 1st month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 38 x 55.2 cm (14 15/16 x 21 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26640
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 93
DescriptionPlay: Keisei Shinasadame
Theater: Naka
けいせい品評林(けいせいしなさだめ)

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.