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Yanagibashi: (Actor Bandô Shûka I as) Umegawa, from the series Thirty-six Fashionable Restaurants of the Eastern Capital (Tôto ryûkô sanjûroku kaiseki)


「東都流行三十六会席 柳ばし 梅川」 初代坂東しうか
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Publisher: Mitaya Kihachi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.6 x 23.1 cm (14 x 9 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.28848
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 005-0793
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.22187, 11.28848
Signed Ichiyûsai Kuniyoshi ga
一勇斎国芳画
Marks Censors' seals: Mera, Watanabe, Rat 11
No blockcutter's mark
改印:米良、渡辺、子十一
彫師:なし
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.