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Maisaka: (Actor Ichimura Uzaemon XII as) Komachiya Sôshichi, from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi)


「東海道五十三次の内 舞坂 小町屋宗七」 十二代市村羽左衛門
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (Kinshōdō) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Koizumi Minokichi (Hori Mino) (Japanese, 1833–1906)
Japanese
Edo period
1852 (Kaei 5), 5th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 34.1 x 23.3 cm (13 7/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.29056
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Marks, Kunisada's Tôkaidô (2013), #T63-31, pp. 140, 165
DescriptionStation no. 31.

MFA impressions:
Without blockcutter's mark: 11.29414, 11.29524.12
With blockcutter's mark: 11.29056, 11.29490, 11.43250, 59.1147.127
Signed Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche
豊国画(年玉枠)
Marks Censors' seals: Hama, Magome, Rat 5
Blockcutter's mark: Hori Mino
改印:浜、馬込、子五
彫師:彫巳の
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.